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Thanks
for coming to class this week! YOU are a vital part of your child’s music
education. =)
You’ll notice that the bulk of new concepts and skills are presented on
parent days. We want you to see how the activities are done so that you’ll
know just what to do at home. If ever you have questions however, feel free
to contact me.
Student behavior - I feel so lucky to be teaching such amazing students! You
have brilliant, eager students that are so receptive at this age. I love
teaching them and can't wait to see them next week.
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We had a lot of new stuff we learned today! Below are a few
highlighted activities and their purpose.
May There Always Be Me
We taught the kids to feel their heartbeat and introduced the
concept of keeping a steady beat. This is important when you're teaching a
child to internally feel the value of notes.
A-Hunting We Will Go
We identified the MI RE DO pattern and sang it independently.
The solfeg patterns are important in training the ear. All the patterns we will
learn in Let's Play Music have a strong cadence pull to DO. When the ear hears
these patterns over and over again they aurally can start predicting where the
music is heading. Patterning plays a major role in the construction of music.
Chords in Pieces
We actually read music today! Well, our eyes followed a chord
map, and we sang the broken chords. I'm feeling so smart....yeah!
Ding Dong, Ding Dong
Correctly imitate pitches is important in learning to sing in
tune, which puts us on a path to becoming a complete musician.
The Staff
It was so fun to
identify the 5 lines and 4 spaces on the staff today!! We are taking time to
let the kids visually familiarize themselves with the single staff. We used our
Red Balloon song to accomplish this!
We
LOVE having our parents come to class on parent day. It was so much fun
singing our lullaby and rocking back and forth feeling the steady beat of the
music. Music is healing and can help us feel emotions. Music is powerful and
every child needs music in their life. And not just for the reasons and
benefits we normally think of as music educators.
Read Carson's story and witness how the power of
music aided in healing a traumatic event in his young life.
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