There are many new and exciting things happening in your child’s life. Some children find comfort in the familiar amidst new challenges. Some find comfort in the new and different and want to disregard the old. Your child’s musical mind will continue to be compelled by CCS Activities. Your child’s current sense of self, however, may need to let go of toys and activities that were cherished at a younger age, play with toys for older children or demonstrate greater independence with a computer or bicycle.
Your child is in quite an advanced CCS Class, so we know that little musical mind is ready for more. If your child balks at a Dialogue Activity, perhaps a Discrimination Activity will draw your little musician in. Your child may be happy just playing “The Meter Game” over and over. That may be his way of “practicing music,” or really working out the difference between meters aurally. A child who balks at playing “The Meter Game,” may find great challenge in “The Tonality Game,” or want to engage in movement with CCS Activities but not singing.
A child who is fascinated with letters and reading and writing language may be equally intrigued by reading and writing music. If so, indulge your child in the Music Reading and Writing Activities. Let the computer demonstrate Music Reading and Writing. Print the Storybooks and read them to your child away from the computer. Print the staff paper for your child. Encourage your little one to read and write music by himself, read the music he has written, or show Grandma how he reads music.
Learning music will always fascinate the musical mind, just as other kinds of learning will always fascinate the thinking mind. “Catch your child in the act” of musical behavior and incorporate that into CCS Activities. Observe what intrigues your child in day-to-day activities and use that in “Playing Music.” It is not music learning that gets old, but rather, the little child that gets older.
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