NCMP is celebrating because I'm Learning to Read has been designated a 2007 Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner!
Thank you to the Parents' Choice organization and to everyone who did such great work on this terrific album.
Announcing two new releases from David Grover for NCMP:
New product: "I'm Learning to Read" CD and handbook;
New product: "Caterpillar Butterfly" Songbook and Teacher's Guide.
Greetings from the Executive Director
David Grover
Welcome to The National Children's Music Project!
NCMP was started as a forum for the educational component of the music that Kathy Jo, Terry and I had been performing for many years. Over time I came to believe that there was an entire body of music that needed to be written and discovered to help children learn what our schools were trying to teach with only partial success. Reading, math, self-esteem, all of these subjects were perfect to learn through music because songs contain three enormously important elements: Repetition, group participation and fun!
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Why children need music
Children love music -- it speaks in a language that they instinctively understand. Play music and even the youngest of toddlers will start moving to its beat. Music welcomes children into its world inviting them to match its pitch, sing its lyrics, move to its beat, explore its harmonic dimensions, and understand its message. Music makes children happy and is a creative means for self expression that integrates mind, body and spirit.
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