Musik & Me – Featuring Lets Play Music and Sound Beginnings

Creating musical children…one note at a time!

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Lesson # 2
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“Home Fun Activities” are designed to help you continue the learning and fun at home! They are always optional, but if you choose to do them, please keep the materials in your tote bag and bring them to class each week. While we will not use them every week, your child will be excited to participate with their own creations when we do! 
Next week’s songs:
  • The Shape Song
  • Name, Name
  • Thread Follows Needle
  • In My Class I Have Some Bells
  • Miss Mary Mack
  • If You Want to Speak in French
  • This Little River
  • The Button Factory


I added the small rubber bands that hold the triangle handle in place. If your rubber band ever needs to be replaced, here’s a video that another teacher made that shows how I did it!

Learning Names: Name recognition is a wonderful beginning literacy skill because
children’s names are the most important and meaningful word they
know. Learning Names

Beat Mat: The beat mat allows children to process rhythm in three ways: aurally, visually and physically! LPM Blog, Beat Develops Brain, Steady Beat
learn and grow

This semester we use the bell set to learn the pentatonic scale. This scale is comprised of only 5 notes, and contains no semi-tones (or half steps). This combination of notes produces a universally pleasant sound, and music based on this scale can be found in folk music from virtually all over the world. The pentatonic scale is a great place to start when working with young children who are just learning to use their voice because the absence of half steps makes it easier to sing in tune. 

Optional Home Fun Activity:
Color the bells on page 9 of your workbook.
You can hold a piece of paper on both sides of each bell to help your child color within the lines!
Here is a Facebook video another teacher’s husband made of the song “If You Want to Speak in French” that goes over the pronunciation. (I think you need to be logged in to Facebook to see it.) We’ll start this song next week, but you can get a head start if you like!

Alphabet: In the same way that children internalize and begin to make meaning of verbal language before they are able to speak it, hearing letter names and sounds establishes the foundation for connecting the alphabet to written language.
7 foundational elements
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:
vocal_pitch Sound Beginnings channels the young voice into beautiful, in-tune singing by providing proper vocal modeling in the correct range. Solfege hand signs teach pitch relationships; the minor 3rd (SOL-MI) pattern is used to develop in-tune singing and pitch matching.

Have a musical day!
-Ms. Bethany 🙂

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