Lesson 14

Next week is the final week of the semester!! Can you believe it? It went by so quickly. Grownups will come next week. Next week I will be handing out the Blue Bugs materials and the Blue Bugs calendar. You are welcome to start listening to the audio tracks and preparing for our Blue Bugs class that will start in January.

Let’s Play Music
Today in our Let’s Play Music song, we learned what MI RE DO & SOL SOL DO look like when written on the staff. The word “notation” means to show how the notes are written on the staff.

Waltz of the Flower
We had fun playing along with our classical music in class today. We played the triangle at the appropriate part during Waltz of the Flowers to help our kiddos hear when that theme plays. Teaching the students to listen and identify different instruments and themes increases their ear sensitivity and opens them up to hearing other individual sounds.

Here's a bit of JINGLE BELLS fun for all you basketball fans! Just imagine how well these players must anticipate the hang time of the basketballs to judge when to shoot in order to ring the hoop-bells in time with the song.

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