Musicanta - The School of Music

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.

Practicing at home requires no prior musical knowledge on your part. Easily laid out homework sheets guide you and your child through several fun activities each week designed to both reinforce what was learned in the lesson and create “bonding on the bench” time at home.

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 and begging for their next lesson!

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.

For many students beginning the WunderKeys program, this is their first experience one-on-one with an adult other than their parents. It’s their first opportunity to be independent, to feel as though they have ownership over their own learning, and to feel pride in their individual accomplishments. The program is designed to foster feelings of confidence, self esteem, and the joy of learning.