Isabella 4 years old Prep Level B/ Level C

Christine,

Isabella is doing great. Wish I can do music lessons everyday with my son. He is also 4 years old. My second child is at the stage where she disturbs. So it is hard for me to find a quiet time. Can you tell me how long are her daily lessons and what do you usually do with her? Also are you using pictures or alphabet with Isabella when playing the piano?

Isabella has great progress .

Thanks,
Esther

Hey Esther,

Thanks, I really try to get her to practice three times a week for about an hour, some weeks she wants to do more some weeks she does less due to our hectic schedule or her mood . We have a little 5 month brother so I get the quiet time issue, but I put him the his bouncy seat and at this stage he enjoys listening to her and doesn't interrupt too much. Or we do it during his nap. We had started at 2 years old with alphabet but we weren't consistent with the program and then I read that using solfege was better so we have been using that ever since. I hope this helps you, if you have any other questions I can try to help.

Thanks,
Christine

Okay so we are little behind...maybe a lot. We are up to Section 3 in the curriculum. I also noticed we haven't been doing the Hanon exercises completely correctly. So we are slowing down a bit and trying to master the what we are doing at the moment.

My daughter insisted on trying to do part of the March of the Nutcracker...she does better than me.

1/6/14
We wish you a merry Christmas P1 115/117 (281)
March from the Nutcracker: P1 81/84 (408) [ I {mom} got P1 79/84 (forgot the time)]
The Small Fir-Tree: P3 66/68 (184)
Tom, Tom the Piper's Son P3 28/30 (75)
Guess Key 5 mins [21] 1:59
Fruit Lines 5 mins [42] 3:08 ending on Level 6


1/7/14
March from the Nutcracker: P1 78/84 (264)
The Small fir- tree P3 67/68 (88) P3 68/68 (84)
Ba Ba Black Sheep: P3 44/44 (48)
Tom, Tom the Piper's Son P3 27/30 (30)
Guess Key 5 min [47] 1:27
Fruit Lines 5 min [78] 2:53 ending on Level 10

1/13/14

Ba Ba Black Sheep: P3 44/44 (37)
Tom, Tom the Piper's Son: P3 30/30 (42)
March from the Nutcracker: P1 84/84 (220)
The Small Fir-Tree: P1 68/68 (105)
Farmer and the Dell: P3 32/32 (58)
Guess Key: 5 mins [36] 1:39
Fruit Lines: 5 mins [51] 2:53 ending on level 7

1/16/14

The Farmer and the Dell: P3 33/33 (45)
Jack and Jill P3 31/31 (45)
10 Little Indians P3 40/40 (31)
Mulberry Bush P4 33/36 (48)
A New Year's Tree: P3 56/57 (81)
French Song: P3 47/48 (46)
Hot Cross Buns: P3 36/37 (33)
Let's Boogie: R1 25/26 (39) L1 51/52 (106)
Drummer: P1 85/85 (117)
Surprise Symphony P3 67/67 (76)
Slumber Song P3 58/62 (86)
Nutcracker March R1 50/55 (148)
Guess Key: 5 mins [87] 1:48
Fruit Lines: 5 mins [94] 2:55 finishing on level 10

Hey
Sorry it has been a little while since i posted our progress...this is my daughters current progress...we are going to continue section 3 this week and than move to section 4 next week, if you think we should.
1/27/14
Finger Exercises- Early Learner and Hanon #1 Right and left Forward and Back.
Music Appreciation-March from the Nutcracker

March from the nutcracker- r1 42/46 (121) l1 26/26 (100)
Alphabet p2 48/48 (71)
Baa, baa, black sheep- P3 43/44 (67)
A New Years Tree p3 54/57 (136)
ode to joy P3 48/48(86)
broken chord waltz p3 30/32 (93)
drummer p3 84/85 (106)
Hot Cross Buns p3 42/42 (68)
guess key: 5 min [72] 2:22
fruit lines: 5 min [75] 2:32

1/28/14
finger exercises early learner and hanon #1 right forward and backward
music appreciation march from the nuutcracker
fruit lines 5 min [58] 4:50
Ear training 1
March from the nutcracker p1 81/84 (193)
Humpty Dumpty: P3 42/43 (54)
Jack & Jill: P3 27/31 (50)
French Song: P3 48/48 (36)
Jingle Bells: P3 77/77 (53)
Fingerboics #3: P1 29/30 (57)
Drummer: P1 85/85 (85)
Broken Chords Waltz 29/32 (47)
Guess Key 5 mins [128] 1:35

1/29/14
Finger Exercises Early Learner and Hanon #1 Right Backward and Forward
Music Appreciation- March from Nutcracker
March from Nutcracker P1 81/84 (172)
London Bridge: P3 52/52 (58)
Mary had a little lamb: P3 62/63 (70)
The small fir-tree: P3 67/68 (114)
Broken Chord Waltz: P1 31/32 (50)
Drummer: P1 85/85 (61)
Fingerobics #3: P1 28/30 (40)
Guess Key 5 mins [132] 2:08
Fruit Lines: 5 mins [60] 3:14

1/30/14
Finger Exercises- Early Learner and Hanon #1 right and left backward and forward separate.
Music Appreciation: March from the Nutcracker
March from the nutcracker p1 83/84 (175)
10 little indians: p3 40/40 (23)
The Farmer in the dell: P3 33/33 (31)
Broken Chord Waltz: P3 26/32 (50)
Drummer: P3 85/85 (59)
Fingerobics #3: P3 29/30 (44)
Slumber Song: P3 62/62 (49)
Guess Key 5 mins [202] 1:13
Fruit Lines: 5 mins [82] 3:24

2/4/14

Music Appreciation March from the nutcracker
Finger Exercises Early Learner and Hanon Forward and Backward Right do-dol Left Do-ti Both do-do
Music Theory: videos, piano, singing, powerpoints
March from the nutcracker: p1 83/84 (137)
The Mulberry Bush p3 36/36 (31)
Tom, tom the piper's son: p3 30/30 (35)
A New Year's Tree: P3 57/57 (69)
Broken Chord Waltz: P1 32/32 (37)
Drummer: p1 84/85 (49)
Fingerobics #3: p1 27/30 (33)
Guess Key: 5 mins [103] 1:27
Fruit Lines 5 mins [73] 3:25

2/5/14
March from the nutcracker p1 83/ 84 (128)
Alphabet song: P3 48/48 (38)
Baa Baa Black SHEEP P3 42/44 (61) P3 44/44 (38)
Ode to Joy P3 48/48 (50)
Broken Chord Waltz: P3 32/32 (40)
Surprise Symphony: P3 67/67 (66)
Guess Key [84] 1:13
Fruit Lines 5 mins [141] 3:40
Finger Exercises Early Learner and Hanon #1 R do-dol L Do-Ti Both Do-DO Backwards and Forwards
Music Appreciation March from the Nutcracker
Music Theory- Powerpoints

2/6/14
Finger Exercise Early Learner and Hanon #1 same as above
Music Appreciation March from the Nutcracker
Slumber Song: P3 61/62 (61)
Broken Chord Waltz: P3 32/32 (33)
Drummer: P3 84/85 (60)
Fingerobics #3: P3 30/30 (46)
French Song: P3 48/48 (37)
Humpty Dumpty: P3 43/43 (30)
Jack and Jill: P3 31/31 (51)
Nutcracker March: P3 79/84 (248)
Guess Key: 5 min [124] 1:12
Fruit Lines: 5 min [81] 3:41

2/10/14
Finger Exercises Early Learner and Hanon #1 Same as above
Music Appreciation March from the Nutcracker
March From the Nutcracker: p1 82/84 (159)
London Bridge: P3 50/52 (74) P3 52/52 (74)
Mary Had a Little Lamb: P3 63/63 (52)
Jingle Bells: P3 77/77 (48)
Broken Chord Waltz: P3 30/32 (47)
Drummer: P3 82/85 (56)
Fingerobics #3: P3 30/30 (60)
Guess Key: 5 min [117] 1:59
Fruit Lines:5 min [18] 4:32

This is today and we recorded most of what we did today
Finger exercise Early Learner and Hanon #1 same as above here is the video so you can see her finger movements, she is doing much better and so am i and we are doing it correctly this time I believe...
Finger Exercises:


March from the Nutcracker P1 84/84 (125)


10 Little Indians P3 40/40 (30)


The Farmer in the Dell: P3 32/33 (27)


The Small Fir-Tree P3 68/68 (85)


The Broken Chord Waltz: P3 32/32 (35)


Drummer P3 85/85 (58)


Fingerobics #3 P3 28/30 (35)




Guess Key 5 min [126] 2:06
Fruit Lines 5 min [81] 3:20

Best regards,
Christine

Thanks for explaining how the code has to be entered, I didn't know why my videos weren't showing up.

Thanks,
Christine