 Thanks for coming to class, parents! You are such a vital part of your child's music education. Keep practicing for the recital. It will be 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. Are you looking for summer music classes? Join my summer camp, Let's Play it Again, created specifically for and only open to 1st and 2nd year Let's Play Music students! They are so fun and parents don't have to attend. Student Packets are available to ANY 1st year students. They have games and activities to do at home to help review and prime your child for success in Year 2! Parents come next week & tuition is due! We’re at the final stages of enrollment for next year and are wrapping it up! If you have not enrolled yet, there is an added processing fee of $10 after April 10th. The recital is coming up! A separate email with specific practice instructions will be sent out. Please take the time to rehearse assigned songs at home and help 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! We’re at the final stages of enrollment for next year and are wrapping it up! If you have not enrolled yet, there is an added processing fee of $10 after April 10th. P.S. If you know of anyone interested in Sound Beginnings (ages 0–4), 1st year Let’s Play Music (ages 5–6), or Presto (ages 7–12) classes for the Fall, please send them my contact information or direct them to the Infusing Music Studios website. Be sure they let me know that you referred them so you can receive your referral credit! $10 tuition credit for Sound Beginnings students and $25 tuition credit for Let's Play Music and Presto students once fall classes begin and they are enrolled. Our year end recital is coming up soon! I will be preparing the recital and sending home practice instructions soon. Keep your eye out for these notes. Homework pp. 24–27: Students cut out the bugs and glue them onto p. 27 under their musical notation. On Top of Spaghetti Today we talked about the word harmony as we sang and played “On Top of Spaghetti”. The students know harmony is two different sounds that sound good together. Learning to sing harmony helps them to sing in tune and stay on their part. It develops the inner ear and lays a solid foundation for becoming a complete musician. El Gallo
This is another wonderful song to teach harmony. You can create harmony by singing this in a round or by singing the rhythmic ostinato. The rhythmic ostinato would be the chords Red, Red, Yellow, Red repeated throughout the song. Try singing Red, Red, Yellow, Red while your child sings the song El Gallo and you are creating harmony with a rhythmic ostinato. For Fun: Those little frogs LOVE to go "a-h0ppin'!!" Want to make your own hoppin' frog? Watch this video. |
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