Lesson 2

​Be sure to listen to the specified album songs and practice each piece. Sitting with your child at the beginning of the practice week will instill good habits and allow you to correct any fingering or note mistakes. Then they can successfully practice on their own the rest of the week!

Place blue stickers on your piano for the Left Hand C-F-A and reinforce the correct fingering of 5-2-1.

Celebrate Connection
A few ideas to bring playfulness to practice time!

• Sing and act out Robin Hood with your child — or even better, as a family!
• Find intervals on the keyboard with mini marshmallows, toy cars, legos, etc.​

Homework pp. 6–7: Students are filling in the crossword puzzle using the music alphabet. Remember, after G comes letter A!

Music Alphabet
“The first 3 notes just happen to be Do Re Mi!” Maria got it right teaching the von Trapp children the solfege before note names. We are getting ready to label all of the white keys on the piano. This begins with the music alphabet — C D E F G A B!

Block and Broken
Playing music is like reading a book. We start at the left side of the page and move our eyes to the right. When the note changes, so do our fingers. Help guide this song while sitting on the left of your child and pointing to the notes in each measure. Once your child is comfortable playing the song, practice making sure each measure gets 3 steady beats. Feel free to sing, “RED-2-3; DO-MI-SOL. BLUE-2-3; DO FA LA,” etc…This will help your student understand how to read the music and work towards playing this song with a steady beat.

Snowflakes are Falling
Brrr ... it’s cold outside! Warm up inside your home by playing this ostinato on the tone bells. Sing starting on RE, “Snowflakes are falling, falling very gently”. Then play LA, SOL, FA, MI for “down, down, down, down”. Try it in a round as a family around the fire with the music album!

Who Am I? I’m the SPIDEY BLUE CHORD!
Spin a chord of fun playing the Left Hand Blue Chord with fingers 5-2-1.