If your little preschooler has mastered the art of banging the wooden spoon against all your pots and pans and is ready to make some real music,
Dripping Springs, TX, September 18, 2006 – If your little preschooler has mastered the art of banging the wooden spoon against all your pots and pans and is ready to make some real music, than we’ve got the perfect gift this holiday season: the NEW holiday song book from the award-winning Piano for Preschoolers program.
The book contains seven classic Christmas songs including: Jingle Bells, Silent Night, Up On the House Top, Jolly Old St. Nicholas, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, The First Noel and Away in a Manger.
”All the carols are easy for children to learn and fun for parents to sing along as their child plays,” said Angie Crellin, founder and president of the Piano for Preschoolers program, whose holiday book is a supplement to the original Piano for Preschoolers
17-song course book. “It’s also a great way to create wonderful memories during this special time of year.”
Unlike more traditional piano programs that offer fancy gimmicks or cartoon characters, the Piano for Preschoolers program offers no distractions. All a child needs to know, in order to get started, is their colors. Color-coded notes are written on a traditional musical staff that sits behinds the keys and guides the child to the correct key for each note. This method gives children an instant feeling of success so they want to continue learning.
Crellin, a mother of two, who studied classical piano for more than 30 years, came up with the idea of Piano for Preschoolers, after watching her older daughter, who was eager to learn piano quickly lose interest soon after she began.
“She didn’t want to go near the piano,” said Crellin, who attributes her daughter’s loss of interest to the lack of child-friendly piano books available on the market. “She didn’t feel a sense of accomplishment and the motivation to continue.”
A few years later when Crellin’s preschool son expressed interest in the piano, Crellin decided it was time to find a fun and exciting way to learn the instrument. After endless hours of research, Piano for Preschoolers was born.
“The results were amazing,” said Crellin, whose innovative program was the winner of the 2005 Parent to Parent Adding Wisdom Award, the only award program ever to be honored by Disney. “My son loved playing real songs he recognized and couldn’t wait to learn more. His friends would come over for play dates and their moms would be amazed at what their kids would accomplish while they were at my house.”
If that wasn’t enough. Crellin’s son, who was only five-years-old started helping his nine-year-old sister with her math homework. She attributes his knowledge, in part, to his early piano instruction.
Over the years, studies have revealed that learning piano at an early age sets a child up for later academic success. According to Dr. Frances Rauscher of the University of Wisconsin and Dr. Gordon Shaw of the University of California, preschoolers who received piano or keyboard training performed 34% higher on tests measuring spatial-temporal ability than did other preschoolers. Children were able to think in pictures and see the pictures moving or changing shape over time – a crucial skill for later success in mathematics, science and engineering.
The Piano for Preschoolers system also includes a Parent/Teacher guide with step-by-step instruction for each song. An added bonus for those parents who have never played piano before. Additional benefits include the savings parents get by not having to spend hundreds of dollars on one-on-one piano instruction while their child develops a love for music and quality time with mom and/or dad.
From Nov. 1st through Dec. 29th Piano for Preschoolers is running a 10% holiday discount priced at $125.95 (less than one month of private piano lessons) that also includes FREE shipping for a savings valued at $32.90. This special package includes the following: 17-song music book with two corresponding color strips (one for piano and one for keyboard with smaller keys); Parent/Teacher guide (that includes 19 lessons) with step-by-step instructions for each lesson, $49.95; NEW holiday song book, $19.95; and Casio SA-75 electronic keyboard with headset, $69.95. Note: items may be purchased separately. For more information on Piano for Preschoolers visit www.pianoforpreschoolers.com .
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