Rachel 4 year old

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04 Feb 2013 18:58 #8184 by andreasro

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Pei Lin, my son has amazed me too with reading. In a month of practice P1 to many songs, not only those from Introductory, I've pressed P2 few days, and few day ago P4 (on the songs he knows by heart - still, it was a bit confusing, so he had to read to play good). Guess what? He's doing great! I think they are able to learn very fast to sight read! I'll try to see how far can he get so I'll go to P5 soon for the same song.
Of course, we're also do sight-reading for other albums, like Nursery Songs, so he's practicing sight-reading, but in P2 for now.

I'm like this

with my son lately! It has become a habit of being knocked down by his progress. I think we should trust more our children and their ability to learn.

Andrea

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05 Feb 2013 00:46 #8190 by Mrs.Post

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We purchased some of Tamsyn's music manipulatives. Both Cayla and Philip can place notes on the staff accurately. Philip has a better track record than Cayla, but Cayla can place the black notes on the staff correctly about 75% of the time. She gets a little confused middle c & d. I am always amazed at how much they learn and "just pick up" it changes the ball games entirely when you do it intentionally. I am ever grateful to BK and Soft Mozart for making SO easy to teach that there is almost no excuse not to. And am always grateful to have like-minded parents to share the journey.

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22 Feb 2013 04:18 #8460 by ttteh

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Dear Parents,

I have been receiving some resistance from Rachel of practising the piano since we had a long break in December. She does not want to play long songs and her concentration on piano is not as the same as before. I also receive the same response from her for other academic work.

According to Ms Hellene, this is a normal reaction from young children. Ms Hellene, suggested a few steps that I had followed and it had work well and I am seeing progress with Rachel's playing and improved in concentration.

Ms Hellene, suggested that I make some paper money to encourage her to play well. Instead of paper money, I make colour butterfly pictures and print out 50 of them. I would place it on the piano whenever she plays well. But she still does not like me to take away her paper butterfly if she does not play well. Rachel will tell me not to take it away but she will try her best to play well. Secondly, Ms Hellene choose a shorter song but a nice song that will improve her hand technique.

After collecting the paper butterfly, I allow her to exchange for a sticker. Rachel wants to play the piano every day and she is looking forward to exchange to sticker with the paper butterfly. She volunteer and told me that she wants to play a new song two days ago - GARDEN.

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Pei Lin

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