Attention Current LPM 2nd year parents (current yellow arrows students): Mandatory parent orientation meeting is coming up this month on Tuesday, February 25th. Because success in Let's Play Music is better if parent has attended the parent orientation meeting, I offer 2 times: 12:00 noon and 8:30pm. At this meeting you will be learning how to register for your classes online and how to participate in 3rd year most effectively. You will need my registration code to complete this New and EFFICIENT registration online (it is SLICK!). The registration/studio fee is the only fee you pay to me to register for Lets play Music. My Studio fee is $30 for keyboard years and $20 for 1st years with a Family Studio Fee (2 or more children $45) and is due at the parent orientation meeting. Once the registration or studio fee is paid, I am then allowed to give you my access code. Materials fees are separate moving forward and will be paid to Let's Play Music online and materials will be delivered to the teacher. You will receive your CD's a few weeks before class begins and student booklets and piano song books will be handed out the 1st day of class: Thursday, August 14 2014. Looking forward to this new process!

Frozen helps out LPM teachers

So the movie Frozen, hit theaters with a bang! As I sat laughing and totally entertained, I couldn't help think of how easily I would be able to weave 'Building a Snowman', into my Orange Roots classes. We Build Snowman in Music all the time! Ask any Orange Root Student how to play The Red Chord and what it looks like and they will tell you "SNOWMAN!!!" That is what teaching Let's Play Music is all about: having fun while teaching about musical concepts and skills in the most creative ways and then students, in turn, have fun while they are learning! I love building Snowmen!!!

childhood music lessons improves brain function as we age!

this study was sent to me by Claire Westlake, a private piano teacher that is a lets play music connections certified teacher in Mesa.

Study Links Childhood Music Lessons With Better Brain Function in Older Adults

By Jennifer Warner
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

April 22, 2011 -- Learning to play a musical instrument as a child may help keep the mind sharp for years after the last note is played.
A new study suggests childhood music lessons may improve brain function and combat the effects of aging on the brain.
Researchers found older adults who took music lessons as a child performed better on memory and brain function tests than those who never learned how to read music or play an instrument.
The benefits of childhood music lessons on brain function were still evident decades later even if they never played music again as adults. But the study suggests the longer the participants played an instrument, the bigger the benefits may be.
"Musical activity throughout life may serve as a challenging cognitive exercise, making your brain fitter and more capable of accommodating the challenges of aging," says researcher Brenda Hanna-Pladdy, PhD, of the University of Kansas Medical Center, in a news release. "Since studying an instrument requires years of practice and learning, it may create alternate connections in the brain that could compensate for cognitive declines as we get older."

thank you 3rd years for makin my 40th a day to remember

My husband involved my 3rd year students in on a surprise during class time as i taught on my birthday. He had Slaton hide out on the front porch and give each child a flower and something with the 40 party to wear while i taught. each child graciously took on this task and presented me with flowers, which have not died yet; and party stuff that i had to wear while i taught my lessons. it was a fun day to remember for sure! i am really glad they got to be a part of it...this is my Thanks to them!!!!

Why MUSIC IN OUR SCHOOLS CONT.

5. Music is a Foreign Language
Most of the terms are in Italian, German or French, and the notation is certainly
NOT English,but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to
represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and universal
Language!

6. Music is Art\
It allows a human being to take all accumulated knowledge and skill and use it to
create emotion. That is one thing science cannot duplicate: Humanism, feeling,
emotion, call it what you will.

THAT IS WHY WE TEACH MUSIC!!!
not because we expect you to major in music-Nor to play or sing all your life
Not so you can relax--NOT so you can have FUN!
but...
SO YOU WILL BE MORE HUMAN-SO YOU WILL RECOGNIZE BEAUTY
SO YOU WILL BE MORE SENSITIVE-SO YOU WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO CLING TO
SO YOU WILL BE CLOSER TO AN INFINITE BEYOND THIS WORLD
SO YOU WILL HAVE MORE LOVE, MORE COMPASSION, MORE GENTLENESS, MORE GOOD
IN SHORT....MUSIC WILL BRING YOU MORE LIFE!!

why music in our schools continued

3. Music is Physical Education

It Requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragm, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets. (this is applying to singing/choir)

4. Music is History
Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation, often even the country and or racial feeling.

WHY MUSIC IN OUR SCHOOLS

Recently, at my son's junior high choir concert, on the back of the program was a wonderful list of why we should have music in our schools. I thought is worthy of sharing with my Let's Play Music families and friends.

1. MUSIC IS MATHEMATICAL
It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.

2. MUSIC IS A SCIENCE It is exact, specific and it demands exact acoustics. A condcuctor's score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time.

stay tuned for more in the coming weeks.....you will definitely be impressed with what music will do for your child as they enter school and the school of life!

RECITAL WOW!

I have to say I really love how the Let's play Music recitals entertain the audiences and how that is not the intention. The children really internalize the music and experience learning about it in different ways! They then get to show that experience on stage; and in it's most genuine way, the learning comes out on display spontaneously, creating a FABULOUS AND HIGHLY ENTERTAINING show! That same spontaneous entertainment delighted yet another recital venue last night! thank you to all the parents who spend the time to help their child in class or in the home by encouraging them and learning about how best to build such a wonderful musical relationship and helping to foster a better parent child relationship. I really have very wonderful students who love learning and the parents who help them are absolutely the best to be associated with!!!! Here are some pictures I have from the recital. These are without the children. If you would like me to post a picture of the recital that you captured, please send them to me via email!

bonds parent to child

The final piece of dissecting the vision statement of Let's Play Music. BONDING PARENT TO CHILD! There is such a great feeling when you KNOW you are doing something right for your child. I have always felt like Let's Play Music was right for every single one of my children. Whether they chose piano or other instruments, I knew that Let's Play Music would give them the very best foundation into whatever they would do in music!!!! Now, my children look back with fondness to their "let's play music" time. They especially love seeing their younger siblings enjoy the puppet shows. They watch the practice time I have with my current daughter and positive memories quickly return of how they got to do the same thing with Mom. Let's Play Music creates a bond with your child for a lifetime! I have 5 children and my oldest really loves participating in choir. My 2nd son, has no intimidation for learning a new instrument and is currently playing the cello and has expressed interest in learning other instruments. My 3rd child, is excelling in private piano studies and my current lets play music student, loves the fun her classes offer her. I have had the unique opportunity to be just a mom with my children and then to teach 2 of them. with my 5th and youngest coming up soon I will have been able to bond with all of them as they participate in Let's Play Music. As a Mom, I want to be able to help my children learn by tapping in to HOW they learn. Seeing 'How' they learn has helped me be a better mother and teacher! I will ALWAYS TREASURE that time with my children!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Merry Christmas to all of my students and their families as well as all of the Let's Play Music Adobe Teaching Team. It's been a pleasure to work with all of you this year. I truly enjoy every second of teaching this fabulous program! Makes me so excited to see everyone learn! Have a wonderful holiday time with your families!
Classes will start back in January 2011.

enhances intelligence

AHHH, the next part of the lets play music mission statement. "enhances intelligence." extensive years of research indicate music is magical, especially when it comes to the effects of the brain development!" Music also promotes enhanced brain functioning. it promotes cognitive development as well as abstract thought. in mathematics, music plays an important role in enhancing the brain's hard wiring for spatial-temporal reasoning, or the ability to visualize and transform objects in space and time. when we divide and subdivide rhythm, this aides in the development of proportional math and fraction skills. music develops these spatial-temporal reasoning skills. knowledge of these skills are a prerequisite to math at higher levels. As children are introduced to complex musical concepts they not only develop high musical aptitudes, but high mental capacities as well. or in other words: MUSIC ENHANCES INTELLIGENCE!

develops talent

research in musical development is concluding that a person is "musically talented" not because of DNA or genetics, but because of a musical environment at a young age. Exposure and instruction during the child's "music window" develops high musical aptitude. Musical Aptitude is the capacity to learn and assimilate musical skills. So we can see, that teaching music to children early will result in.....TALENTED CHILDREN! "Let's Play Music presents and encourages the development of harmony, melody, and rhythm skills in such a way that a child internalizes these skills; and as they are internalized and assimilated, a musician is formed. All children are musical by nature, but need some guidance to refine their natural interest into a skill. Let's Play Music is focused on developing the musician already present within each child by INTERNALIZING the elements of beautiful music." i tell my 1st year parents that the focus of the 1st year is complete INTERNALIZATION and internalization cannot be rushed. so let's have FUN!

Increases Confidence

YES!!!!! Let's Play Music increases confidence. I have seen my own children's inhibitions decrease and confidence increase as they have participated in lets play music. When they get the 'AH-HA' moment, they naturally feel confident with themselves. As they try a new and hard thing, it will seem difficult at first, but when they persist and keep trying, that internal reward of increased confidence shines through. I have been able to witness, first hand, the shy child in class that eventually comes out of their "shell" and really become active participants in the class. As a teacher and a mother, when I see the confidence in a child increase, it makes me so excited and I feel a great reward indeed!!! If anyone has experienced that same thing, feel free to post a comment, I would love to hear how lets play music has played an important role in increasing your child's confidence!

enriches lives

lets play music has enriched my life in a number of ways. first as a mother, i was thrilled to have my first 2 children go through the 3 year program and how it was tricking them into learning important skills and concepts that they would for sure use later in life. second as a parent in the program, i feel was learning theory that i had missed as a budding piano studnet. it was taking the boring out of beginning piano and each song had a purpose and teaching element in it that made learning easier...and they were playing. as a teacher, it has enriched my life to see my own children as well as others see the lights go on as they learn and grasp tough musical concepts at a young age....never to be forgotten. the music window of learning is ages 3-9...in this time frame, when children learn something it will never be erased. the 1st year of lets play music is lots of internalization of music and beats. the 2nd year of lets play music is keyboard topography. really visualizing the keyboard and knowing the names of the keys. then the 3rd year we teach how to read from the staff the names of the notes. this is the best way to begin piano. if any of you have been enriched by lets play music...let us hear how it is or has enriched your life.

Vision Statement

Lets play Music
enriches lives, increases confidence, develops talent, enhances intelligence, and bonds parent to child, by providing an outstanding music educational experience for children, using premium materials and lessons, taught by superbly trained teachers.

REGISTERATION FOR '10-'11 1ST YEARS IS NOW

1ST YEAR CLASSES WILL BE WEDNESDAYS @ 3:45 AND 4:45.
DON'T DELAY!

lets play music was on TV

SPRING SEMESTER IS BEGINNING....AND OH! THE THINGS THEY WILL LEARN!

Spring is where the Red Balloons turn to Blue Bugs and where the Purple Magics turn to Orange Roots! Can't wait to see you all soon.

REGISTRATION FOR FALL 2009 IS NOW

Let's play Music CLASSES OFFERED FOR THIS 2009-2010 SCHOOL YEAR:

1ST YEAR:

WEDNESDAYS: 4:00-4:45

THURSDAYS: 3:30-4:15

debbiehuish@cox.net to register

(POSSIBLE THURSDAYS @ 1:00-1:45 IF ENOUGH
PEOPLE WANT THAT TIME.)