Songs and Studies for Kids! Introductory A (Book)

I also just wanted to say how much I appreciate your resources. They have been instrumental in helping me go from “how am I going to fill these 30 minutes” to “How did 45 minutes fly by so fast?” I SO appreciate that many of the songs you highlight offer an opportunity to explore really good vocal technique, without being too “conservatory” feeling! And, I have especially loved the small solfege study songs, and once a student know Do-donut and So-Mi monsters REALLY well, we break out the solfege cards and start composing little songs for each other, first with just notes all of one length, and then playing around with rhythm. I love it because I feel like this skill of ‘creating’ was something that was completely unthought of in my own years of studying singing and I want my students to understand that writing and creating with music isn’t something really complicated, instead it is yet another buildable skill!

I have been using Full Voice resources with my junior primary students for the past couple of years and they absolutely LOVE it! A 7 year old student of mine with ASD has been excelling in his lessons lately. He learnt solfege using the flashcards, alongside the workbook and has been loving his Sight Singing Superhero exercises. I recently gave him Do Do Donuts to look at and he used everything he has learnt to sight sing the piece to me; he clapped out the rhythm, used solfege to work out the melody, put them together and added the lyrics, and sang it perfectly for me the first time!

I started using the songs and studies intro a book for one of my students with ADHD and dyslexia. He LOVES space cats! It took a while for him to do the correct rhythm for ‘billions’ of stars since he wanted to do 3 full syllables. When I taught him how to pronounce it, we compared it to the pronunciation of “onion”. Now, we talk about “onion stars” all the time 😀 he also loves the space sounds at the end and orbits in circles until it ends. He has grown so much and loves to practice space cats with perfect pitch and rhythm!