Building Strong Kids

1. About The Muzicbugs have arrived! Follow their colorful adventures in the picture story books in print and eBook format. There is color, movement, rhyme and song, and quite a lot of mischief along the way. On their journey, each bug learns an important life skill, which is reinforced through music and song in the Muzicbug Activity Units. The Muzicbugs are ready and waiting to assist your child in developing adaptive social, personal and learning skills. Leighton Smith spent 25 years working as a primary school teacher. He has worked extensively with children in a classroom setting and also developed and implemented curriculum course material for Distance Education learning. He has also written and produced an extensive range of audio visual educational materials including a comprehensive library of children’s music and songs. In his spare time, he continues to work as a professional pianist/musician in a variety of different roles and settings. Dr Rebecca Meaney has worked as a clinical psychologist, and lectured in psychology at universities. Rebecca’s particular area of clinical and research interest is improving emotional wellbeing, and she has worked extensively with primary school aged children, adolescents, and university students with this aim. Rebecca has authored several publications in both Australian and international journals on topics including the factors that enhance good mental health.

2. HELP KIDS LEARN LIFE SKILLS… Introduce essential life skills to your children with the Muzicbug picture story books! Featuring the 20 fun and zany musical bugs each with their own Story to tell with an essential life skill message. Read the Books. Discuss the life skills. Teach positive behavior. And help build strong kids! “I have been reading muzicbug books with my 5 year old daughter and she is in love with them. She is excited about reading and doesn’t want to put them down especially the awards chart that shows her how much she has done and learned. At the end of each book, I ask Adele to feedback what the book is trying to point out, to see if she understands. For most of them she understands each life skill and how she can use it or work on it every day.” -Athy, Kew “My son is really enjoying Muzicbug books. He loves listening to the audio whilst I hold the book and we go through it together. Every day he wants to read a new story.” -Ahla, Sydney “Where such a busy schedule dictates our day to day activities, to sit down quietly during bedtime with my 4 year old, and have him engage in the fascinating creatures in the Muzicbug books, but also know that with each book I am teaching him some really important life skills and values, is definitely one of my most enjoyable moments of each day! Thank you for making our bed time reading, that yet more exciting and truly valuable!” -Anza, Balwyn “I can tell you my 3 and 6 year olds love the books and the rewards chart has worked a treat. My dad read 13 books to them in a row just a couple of nights ago.” -Simone, Bundoora “My 4 year old daughter would often go and get the books herself asking us to read them to her or she will sit for ages just looking at them herself. Our 2 year old son always gets excited when we said we were going to read them. I have always endeavoured to teach my children important life skills and have found it to be quite challenging at times although very much worth the effort. The Muzicbug program has made this task so much easier and accessible,

3. something that I can slot into our day to day activity. I think it is extremely beneficial to all children who use it. Thank you for the wonderful program.” -Erin, Bundoora “My little 5 year old niece has been reading these books since the day she got them. She absolutely loves them. She especially loves the stickers to these books as she associates the characters to the stickers. The more she reads them the better she understands the meaning the book and the life skill it’s trying to teach her.” -Stav, Ivanhoe Print Book The Muzicbug Tales is a series of 20 books available individually or as a set, which introduce children to important social and emotional life skills. Each book encourages your child to read the story of a Muzicbug while learning about emotional skills such as having self belief or confidence, and courage, social skills including making friends and being reliable, and skills that also assist in learning which include setting goals and making an effort. The Muzicbug Tales are part of the innovative Muzicbug learning program designed to assist parents and caregivers to help children develop the skills they need to enhance social and emotional well-being during childhood, and build the foundations for a healthier, happier life. EBook The Muzicbug Tales is a series of 20 eBooks available individually or as a set, which introduce children to important social and emotional life skills through engaging stories, animation and music. Each eBook encourages your child to join a Muzicbug as they demonstrate emotional skills such as hopefulness and self reliance, social skills including making friends and sharing with others, and skills that also assist in learning which include persistence and being organized. The Muzicbug Tales are part of the innovative Muzicbug learning program designed to assist parents and caregivers to help children develop the skills they need to enhance social and emotional well-being during childhood, and build the foundations for a healthier, happier life. Audiobook The Muzicbug Tales is a series of 20 audio books available individually or as a set, which introduce children to important social and emotional life skills through engaging stories, narration and music. Each audio book encourages your child to join a Muzicbug as they

4. demonstrate emotional skills such as hopefulness and appreciation, social skills including making friends and valuing people, and skills that also assist in learning which include cooperating and being organized. The Muzicbug Tales are part of the innovative Muzicbug learning program designed to assist parents and caregivers to help children develop the skills they need to enhance social and emotional well-being during childhood, and build the foundations for a healthier, happier life. Activity – PDF The Muzicbug Program Activity Units focus on using music in a playful way, to reinforce social and emotional life skills found in the book series, and target language and literacy skills. Each unit contains multisensory learning and music activities, suitable for use both at school and at home. Supplemented with fun original music and songs, these units are designed to be interesting and easy to use, while helping to develop fundamental social and academic skills. The 20 units in the series are available for purchase individually, or as a set. The units contain 10 activities: Singing, Mixed Bag, Dancing, Games, and Chanting, Making Things, Keyboard, Listening, Action and Performance. To make things fun, each unit features original music, songs and dialogue performed by the talented Muzicbugs. The Activity Units have been designed for parents or caregivers to guide kids through each activity, which can be adapted to suit each child’s unique abilities and learning requirements. Life Skills Awards Chart

5. Reinforce all 20 life skills with the Muzicbug Awards chart and 20 fun life skills stickers. Hints to earn awards stickers Contact Us