Next week just drop off your kiddo
with their completed homework and we’ll be ready 45 minutes later! =)
Thank you for coming
today parents! Keep in mind, when you come to class, the children do act
slightly different. Just remember to be actively engaged in what I’m doing and
don’t force their participation, just encourage. What a gift to send quality
time with your precious child, bonding and creating fun music memories! This is
SO much fun!!
Barnyard Boogie
This peppy song is even more fun when you realize we are
imitating and identifying complex rhythmic patterns! The brains of young
children are designed to extract patterns from complex layers, making more
connections with each exposure. Start with playfully clapping the animals
separate from the CD at a slower speed. Soon they will clap right along as the
CD plays!
DO is Home
Our purpose here is to match pitch, and eventually, to
accurately pull that middle C out of thin air with no cues! WOW! This process
will take six months to three years, so we'll work on it every week during our
three years together.
Staff Awareness
In Let's Play Music we experience things before we label them.
Experiencing and playing with the music staff is a great way to understand how
it functions. When we start to add things to the staff like notes, and key
signatures, the students will have information stored in their brains that they
can connect it to, so identifying lines/spaces on the staff is the beginning of
our visual love of the staff.
Play an ostinato on
the bells - harmony training
An ostinato is a
repeated musical pattern that is played at the same time as a separate melody.
We did this today as we played DO SOL on the bells while singing the song “Hear
How the Bells”. Our ears are getting SO SMART!
Why do we use folk music in Let's Play Music? This question is an
important one. Read HERE http://makingmusicianslpm.blogspot.com/2014/10/three-blind-mice.html to find the answer! Also, Click HERE http://makingmusicianslpm.blogspot.com/2013/05/incredible-lpm-graduate-from-2001.html to read about one of our Let's Play
Music graduates!
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