a head start in music...
Parent Information Guide
Welcome to WunderKeys Piano For Preschoolers – a unique program for preschoolers ages 3 to 5. An encouraging first experience in music lessons is critical to your child’s enjoyment of the piano. The WunderKeys Program has been designed to be that and more! WunderKeys lessons are tailored to meet the needs of preschool-aged children and to ensure that their first music lesson experience is positive and enjoyable.
Designed as an all-encompassing piano lesson, students participate in five different unique activities during their lesson time, ensuring they remain focused, engaged and happy. Throughout the 3 book series, your child will develop piano and music skills that will allow for a smooth transition into mainstream piano method books. Beginners in this program start with no prior piano or music experience and finish with solid keyboard awareness, an understanding of rhythmic notation, and the ability to play simple pieces with both hands.
During WunderKeys lessons, your child has the opportunity to participate in fun activities both on and off the piano bench, which have been created to build confidence, increase enjoyment, and solidify important music and math concepts. These activities include: musical math songs, patterning activities, finger poem exercises, book work, and music card games.
We use songs, games, and fun manipulatives to keep your child engaged
a head start in math...
It is no secret that music, and specifically the piano, is built around mathematical principles. This fact is highlighted by numerous studies revealing the piano to be a powerful tool for developing mathematical thinking. It is, however, relatively unknown that there exists a window of opportunity during the preschool years when learning the piano can facilitate neural connections in the brain needed for mathematical understanding later in life.
Knowing that this window of opportunity is relatively short and with the aforementioned research in mind, the WunderKeys Program was developed to make the most of these important years.
Through this program, your child will get a head start on the math concepts they will be learning in Kindergarten. WunderKeys students finish the program with a solid understanding of patterning, sorting, grouping, classification, counting, number recognition, “more than/less than”, one-to-one correspondence and more. Not only will they be familiar with these important mathematical concepts, but their first experience with math will be one that is both enjoyable and approachable, in which they were made to feel successful.