Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | Pink Piggies Lessons

Lesson #14

Next week is instrument day! We would love to have several people share an instrument or vocal talent! Of course, performing is optional, but we would enjoy hearing from you, your child, or another family member or friend. They can play an instrument (one of our semester instruments would be amazing!) or sing a solo (a song from this semester would be fabulous!). We welcome any and all performers! If your child wants to bring a homemade instrument, that's fine too! Each family will have a turn to share something. Please let me know what you will be sharing (and please let me know if you have any questions).

Our Sound Beginnings/Let's Play Music 1st and 2nd Year Showcase will be Friday, April 25th @ 5:30pm at the church at 2750 North 800 East. Please put it on your calendar! Sound Beginnings kids will be singing 2 songs at the start of the showcase. Sound Beginnings students will wear Sound Beginnings t-shirts. If you don't already have one, you'll get one if you are going to be at the showcase! If you'd like to see the 3rd Year and Bridge Recital, it will begin @ 6:15pm.

Do you have a favorite instrument we listened to this semester? It’s likely that you and your student prefer one instrument to another. Exposure to various instruments allows your child develop a ‘taste’ for a particular sound that may turn into a desire to study a specific instrument. By listening to a solo instrument your child is learning about it’s timbre and tones. Timbre (pronounced "tam-ber") is the unique and distinctive sound that belongs to a specific instrument and distinguishes it from any other instrument. Tone refers to the quality and frequency of a sound as compared to itself; the difference in frequencies of low sounds (“bass”) and high sounds (“treble”).

Optional home fun activity: Do the Instrument Day activity on page 18           
(Remember, these activities are optional but can be a great bonding experience to do with your child during the week.)  

Check out this fun video of the Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks!

Sound Beginnings is education through musical play! It prepares children for success in Kindergarten and Let’s Play Music. Sound beginnings provides research-based elements that stimulate growth in the areas particularly crucial to the development of the young child. These elements make up the foundation of the Sound Beginnings curriculum.  Here is just one: Research has shown that singing improves reading. Our classes prepare children for kindergarten by exploring concepts and skills such as name recognition, alphabet and phonetic awareness, counting, identifying colors, rhyming, telling time, and sequencing.

Have a musical day!         
-Ms. Bethany :)