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Dogs and Birds is a multisensory approach with many musical activities. The beginners’ set is a package which is perfect for starting your child’s musical journey. It includes:
- Two beautifully coloured Book 1s (one with animal symbols and one without), which teach your child to read, sing and play musical notation. They also establish hand co-ordination and rhythm.
- Coloured Staves and the 56 Small Animal Tiles, which are excellent support for ear training, finger exercises, compositions, and making reading music simple.
- Notes and Lesson Plans to Book 1 for Parents and Teachers, which gives you our 17 recommended steps for covering the material in Book 1, and the Music Manuscript Book, which helps you to be well organized.
It just makes learning so effortless and so much fun. Vici Hoban Read, Jiggle and Jam
It is a real treat to discover a new and imaginative approach to teaching the piano which really works. Faye Cayley, Music Teacher Magazine
- Paperback:
- 184 pages (50 pages each tutor book, 84 Pages Notes and Lesson Plans)
- Accessories:
- Small Animal Tiles, Coloured Staves, Music Manuscript Book (4 Staves per Page)
- Composer:
- Elza and Chris Lusher
- Illustrator:
- Mark Chambers
- Publisher:
- Dogs and Birds
- ISBN-10:
- 1-4706-1182-1
- ISBN-13:
- 978-1-4706-1182-8
21 Reviews
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Best tool for young children to learn piano.
Best tool for young children to learn piano the fun and easy way. My 4 year old absolutely love this idea of using animals for the notes. It is so much easier to focus and still have fun learning an instrument.
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A piano teaching method I was looking for a long time ago!
I was looking for a piano method for 3 1/2 / 4 year olds long time ago and I am very pleased that I found "Dogs and Birds". The idea is great and it leaves a lot of room for teacher's creativity during the teaching process at the same time. Thanks a lot! I can't wait to try it!
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great product for little children who want to learn how to play the piano
great product for little children who want to learn how to play the piano. It would be great if the tiles were magnetic though...
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Excellent for Creative work
This fun product suits a range of age groups depending on developmental needs, and can be flexibly used to reinforce note names, or to develop compositional skills
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Very pleased!
I'm very pleased with the product I bought. It's great to have the complete set as it gives you lots of options. I would definitely recommended for both parents and teachers!
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Excellent product
In my opinion, this book set opens up a great avenue to teachers who would like to start teaching private piano lessons to children aged 3-4 - the songs and rhythm exercises are very comprehensive, the book and animal tiles are beautiful - very good quality with nice colours, very tastefully done. Nice quality of paper in the book as well. A nice lesson guide for teachers, and worth getting the entire teacher set for beginners.
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Super book and teaching method
I was so excited to try this out with my little boy who has just turned four. He loves it - as do I - this approach is really wonderful: it encourages creativity; puts rhythm practice at the fore and develops a child's ear by encouraging singing and implementing the Kodaly method along side piano playing. I also really like the fact it begins with two hands straight away (D and B which outlines the So - Mi interval). I can already tell that this approach is going to be really beneficial in developing a reliable inner ear. Thank you for giving me such an exciting way to teach little ones the piano! I hugely recommend this approach.
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immediate success with a four years old!
235In three lessons I have a child committed to singing and reading dog/bird in rhythm and on pitch! Both his father and I are so pleased with the child's success!!! My older students enjoyed reading through the first book . This series is a winner !!!!
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Great product
I'm a teacher with 30-yers of experience and always looking for that perfect method for young beginners. Recently I came across "Dogs and Birds" and ordered this set. I use it succesfully with students from 4 to 7 y.o. It's fun to teach and learn. Four-years olds use book with pictures only. For 6-7 y.o.beginners I alternate two books from level one so students introduced to notes with pictures and without them at the same time. The board with the staff is useful to reinforce the note placement and composition.
