Ah, the hill I died on. I ended up homeschooling our daughter for slightly less then 8 months of her 3rd grade school year. I wanted to maintain a music curriculum. They had started with recorder that year in the school we pulled her from, but I have had limited experience with it. I gave her the choice of continuing with Soprano recorder or I could start working with her on piano, which I do know how to play. I was seriously hoping she'd pick piano...but she said she wanted to stick with recorder if I wasn't going to teach her guitar. Which isn't an instrument I play and definitely didn't have time to figure out with everything else we had going on, so I told she was out of luck on that one and recorder it was.
So I bought this book because it is solidly reviewed. Having gone through the entire thing myself to brush up and improve upon my own recorder skills when she decided that was what she wanted to go with, I can say I think it does a great job of teaching the basics for recorder and the treble clef. Since I already read music, I didn't really need that part of it, but it allows me to evaluate the quality better. I also tried to use this to support my daughter in learning recorder...but it just. wasn't. guitar. About a third of the way through the book I said "to heck with it!" It isn't something they are going to test her on upon admission to her new school in the fall, it isn't required learning under the standardized testing, and it just wasn't worth the battle. It's the only curriculum area I failed to complete with her.
I think for her, she may have found the book more engaging if it had cutesy pictures in it, or some of her favorite Disney songs. So younger children may be less motivated by the lack of illustrations and the song choices, and this may not be the best support for them. But I think for any kiddo middle school or up (where there is the discipline of mind to put up with song choices that aren't their favorites and who might view cutesy illustrations as not what they need), this is very well done and will adequately teach them what they need to know to get started.
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