Musik & Me – Featuring Lets Play Music and Sound Beginnings

Creating musical children…one note at a time!


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Lesson #12
Teacher Tidbits

No class next week because of Spring Break!

Parents come the following week and final payment is due! If you are unsure if you are caught up on your payments or not, please just ask.

All entries for the Spirit Month drawing are due this Saturday by 8:00pm. NO EXCEPTIONS. You MUST fill out this form if you wish to enter the drawing. You can text me a picture of your BINGO card if you didn’t bring it to class.

Next class we will choose what your child will be playing in the showcase. I’ll give you each a few options. I’d like all the kids to have a couple opportunities to shine. Remember, we are not a performing group, but we do like to showcase what we’ve learned, so please have them practice their part. They don’t need to have it memorized, but they will feel more confident if they do.

Purpose in the Play
Online Fun:
Practice identifying chords: Chord Identification – Ear Training

The Ants Go Marching
Marching to this fun song helps us learn to keep a steady beat. We also reviewed the cadence pattern SOL LA TI DO. Repetition is key to training the ear!          

Baby Butterfly
This song is hard to get out of your head once you start singing it. This activity is designed to help the students identify bug rhythms and rhythmic patterns in the songs they are singing. In class we went on a bug hunt!

Do, Re, Mi
For help with the 2nd verse of Do Re Mi, click here to check out our skills video.

Skills Video DO, RE, MI 2nd Verse

Jungle Rhythm
For a review of Jungle Rhythm, click here for our skills video.

Skills Video Jungle Rhythm Review

The Staff
For extra fun staff practice at home, create the major scale using solfege magnets. Then point to the pieces in the red chord. Repeat for the blue and yellow chords. Click here for our dry erase student magnet board and 1st year magnet set to create your own balloons, scale, or footprints on the staff.

Making Musicians
Homework theory answer key, all skills videos, and make-up videos for missed classes: (tap, click or scan)

We have been using solfege for a while now. If your child needs more exposure to help them remember the hand signs, click here to read a very helpful article on the LPM blog. Also, I made my own quick videos of how you can remember the signs.        
           
Turn on this fun video of the “Ants Go Marching” and have your kids act out the catchy nursery rhyme! An added bonus…it’s great exercise!

Go marching with Shelle and the ants in this fun video.

Have a musical day!
-Ms. Bethany 🙂
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