 Parents come on Wednesday! Keep practicing for the recital. It will be here before you know it! Homework: pp. 34–37 Students cut out and glue on pieces for the “Fox Hunt” puppet show. This will also help them get ready for the recital!  Primary Chord Song The new activity today was singing a broken primary chord on command. The children sang the correct chord a cappella for me when I held up a color. They did fantastic! This shows us that their aural brain is internalizing pitches and their ability to sing in tune is developing. These concepts may seem unimportant, but they are crucial to developing a complete musician. Laying this solid aural foundation now will help your student take dictation in 3rd year and write their own composition.  Let's Play steps and skips on our bells! If you open your Homework Booklet you'll find some bell music at the back. Encourage your child to play it. Even better, encourage them to start writing their own bell music and notate it if they'd like.
Singing in tune is one of the main objectives in Let's Play Music. A great way to reinforce this skill at home is to play a 3-4 note melody for your child and have them sing it back to you. As they get better and better, add more notes. You will be amazed at the quick progress your child will make. Their little brains are like sponges which allows them to be fast learners. Thanks for coming on Tuesday, parents! We love having you here. You are such a vital part of your child's music education. Keep practicing for the recital. It will such a delight to watch our little musicians making music together! HOMEWORK: pp. 32–33 Students read the notes on the staff and ‘x’ the corresponding bell. Hokey Pokey This fun traditional song helps to reinforce the SOL LA TI DO melodic cadence pattern. Identifying this pattern over and over again trains the ear to be sensitive to other patterns as well. We're developing intelligent listeners. Sight Reading Today one of our activities was to sight read the steps or skips from a given note. This is a great sign that the students are internalizing and processing several of the the concepts that we’ve been teaching. This is a crucial skill set needed to develop into a music sight reader! Baby Butterfly / BINGO Using the Baby Butterfly and BINGO activities we are able to see that our bugs are hiding in EVERY song! Now we’re decoding enough that the students can find these rhythms on their own. Recognizing bug rhythms in songs helps children to develop the ability to sight read better and then in 3rd year compose their own song. Let's practice sight reading! Open up the Homework booklet and find the Lines & Spaces page at the back. Find some pennies, smarties, or anything that fits between the lines and play some games with your child. Not only is the "Hokey Pokey" training us to be intelligent listeners ... it's a lot of fun too! Here is fun video for your kids grab them and follow along.
Parents come next week & tuition is due! The recital is coming up! A separate email with specific practice instructions will be sent out later today. Please take the time to rehearse assigned songs at home and your child prepare for their performance. Keep in mind, we are not a performing group, but we do like to showcase what we have learned Homework: pp. 28–31 Students cut out and glue on the Chords in Pieces solfege, as well as color the triangles. Be sure to listen to the CD and practice on the bells! Bell practice is essential to prepare students for Year 2 on the keyboards. The Ants Go Marching Marching to this fun song helps us learn to keep a steady beat. We also reviewed the cadence pattern SOL LA TI DO. Repetition is key to training the ear! Baby Butterfly This song is hard to get out of your head once you start singing it. This activity is designed to help the students identify bug rhythms and rhythmic patterns in the songs they are singing. In class we went on a bug hunt! We have been using solfege for a while now. If your child needs more exposure to help them remember the hand signs, read on...
Turn on this fun video of the "Ants Go Marching" and have your kids act out the catchy nursery rhyme! An added bonus...it's great exercise! |
Clara McDonaldAs a music educator of 25 years, my passion is infusing others with music! Archives
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