Thanks for all the suggestions guys!!! I knew you all could help send me in the right direction :love:
We received it cm, and will try to get them out today or Monday! Thanks, hope they work out well for you---we had fun with them!
For very young children we enjoyed "Keyboard Capers," not be confused with audio and visual programs by the same name. This was from Elijah company and was a music theory course for children. It was easy and built precept upon precept very gradually. I would hold up pictures of ducks to illustrate volume, for example. The drake was labelled "ff" for loud, and the duckling was "pp" for soft. As I held up the various ducks, my children quacked loudly or quietly, according to the label. A piano was not strictly necessary, though helpful. There were creative and fun action activities like this all the way through, which is what we needed at that time. I hope this course is still available. It would be hard to beat, as far as theory goes.
Yeah, it is, it's on Rainbow Resources site. http://www.rainbowresource.com/search.php?sid=1183157378-1961602 Keyboard Capers
Yep! That's it! They didn't have the manipulative kit when we used it, though. We had to make our own. Even so, it was doable. (I'll confess that I skipped some of the lessons that seemed to go too slowly.) I try to avoid being short-circuited in the learning adventure by being too tightly bound to someone else's scope and sequence. But just because I didn't use every page of a certain resource doesn't mean that it wasn't valuable to me. So, yeah, pick the lessons you need out of this course, and let the rest go. $17.00 would only pay for a few lessons from a piano teacher, anyway.
Oh, yes! much cheaper than lessons I always pick and choose what will be most valuable. What we will enjoy doing.
