Let’s Play Music with Miss Cameron is now enrolling for their piano and early childhood music classes for ages 0-12 at their studio located near 136th and I-25 in Thornton!
In the Let’s Play Music programs, we know that children learn most effectively through play! Peek in any of our classes and you’ll see jumping, singing, skipping, storytelling, and laughing!
We understand that a child has to be physically involved in the learning process, so we use the eyes, ears, hands, and full body movement to learn concepts usually taught on paper.
We also know that children enjoy learning in a peer group setting. The synergy of a Let’s Play Music class naturally encourages children to participate and to excel.Your child will learn advanced concepts and skills using age-appropriate methods!
Take a look at the three class levels we offer, and then join a free sample class this summer! (Just email Miss Cameron at cameronlcarruthers@gmail.com to setup your free sample class!)
Ages 0-4
Sound Beginnings is a family music class for children ages 0-4 and a parent or caregiver. By providing a solid music and preschool foundation, Sound Beginnings prepares students for success in Let’s Play Music and Kindergarten.Classes include singing, movement, instrument play, nursery rhymes, games, stories, and ear training activities.
The curriculum is organized into six non-sequential semesters. Each semester explores musical and kindergarten skills such as in-tune singing, keeping the beat, counting, colors, name recognition, telling time, and much more!
Attending Sound Beginnings with your young child will strengthen your relationship. In class, purposeful play, eye contact, partner activities, and generational nostalgia develop the highly significant parent-child bond.
CLASS TIMES:
- Mondays 4:00pm - 4:30pm
- Saturdays 10:30am -11:00am
CLASS INFORMATION:
- 4-8 families per class
- Parents attend with child every week
- Fall Classes run 15 weeks from the end of August through December
Ready to check out a class? Reach out to Miss Cameron at cameronlcarruthers@gmail.com to setup a free sample class this summer!
For more info,head here: https://www.letsplaymusicsite.com/sound-beginnings
Ages 4-6
Let’s Play Music is our flagship curriculum. This three-year program solves the problem that a child is most ready to learn music at an early age, but his fingers and letter skills are not ready until later. We take full advantage of the brain’s ability to absorb musical concepts and teach skills in an age appropriate way. Solfege hand signs, folk songs, games, imagination and creativity are important components of each lesson.
FIRST YEAR: We use engaging games and songs and incorporate Tone Bells to teach staff awareness and rhythm reading skills.
SECOND YEAR: We transfer these skills to playing the piano where we also learn chord notation, intervals, and harmonic improvisation.
THIRD YEAR: Students are playing piano at level 1-2, transposing music, composing their own music, sight-reading music, and are prepared for further private piano instruction.
CLASS TIMES:
- Mondays 4:35pm - 5:20pm
- Saturdays 9:30am - 10:15 am
CLASS INFORMATION
- 6-7 students per class
- Parents attend with child every other week
- Classes for the 2019-2020 school year run 30 weeks from the end of August through the beginning of May
Ready to check out a class? Reach out to Miss Cameron at cameronlcarruthers@gmail.com to setup a free sample class this summer!
For more info, head here: https://www.letsplaymusicsite.com/lpm
Ages 7-12
New in 2018, this is a two-year beginning piano course for ages 7-12 that teaches all of the skills from Let’s Play Music. Because students are older and have more developed dexterity, we have added heavy emphasis on proper piano technique and repertoire.
FIRST YEAR: Students use the piano as their primary instrument from the very first lesson. We use age-appropriate songs with catchy beats and appealing games to teach music literacy, ear training, improvisation, music history (Middle Ages-Classical Era), piano technique and classical music.
SECOND YEAR: Students are playing piano at level 1-3, transposing, composing their own music, sight-reading, learning music history (Romantic Era-20th Century) and advanced rhythm introduction.
CLASS TIMES:
- 2nd/3rd Grade - Tuesdays 5:15pm - 6:15 pm
- 4th/5th Grade - Tuesdays 4:00pm - 5:00 pm
- 6th/7th Grade - Tuesdays 6:30pm - 7:30 pm
CLASS INFORMATION
- 3-4 students per class
- Parents attend once per semester
- Classes for the 2019-2020 school year run 30 weeks from the end of August through the beginning of May
Ready to check out a class? Reach out to Miss Cameron at cameronlcarruthers@gmail.com to setup a free sample class this summer!
For more info, head here: https://www.letsplaymusicsite.com/presto
About Miss Cameron
Want to know more about Miss Cameron? Here's you go!
"Music has been a part of my life since I was a young child. My parents heavily prioritized giving my brother, sister, and I a strong musical education. My mom had never learned to play an instrument as a child, and always wished she had, so she wanted to make sure she gave us that foundation.
After being involved with choir, piano and viola during my early school years, I started teaching piano my senior year of high school and fell in love with it. I found that I loved breaking difficult concepts down so that beginners could understand them, loved the creativity of teaching, and loved children. I would stay up late into the night researching different curriculum! It took me a year of being an undeclared major in college to realize that, if I loved teaching so much, maybe I should make a career out of it.
I found Let’s Play Music my junior year of college and realized it was everything I had been looking for in a curriculum – it taught not only note reading skills, but ear training, theory, composition, and more. I have now been teaching piano for 11 years and Let’s Play Music for 8 years. I am excited to bring a quality music education to more children in the Thornton area!"
