Musik & Me – Featuring Lets Play Music and Sound Beginnings

Creating musical children…one note at a time!

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Lesson # 5
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Next week’s songs:
  • The Shape Song
  • Cherry Pie
  • Frere Jacques
  • DO Pentatonic Scale
  • Risseldy, Rosseldy
  • The Button Factory
  • If You Want to Speak in French
  • Baby Elephant Walk
  • Make New Friends
  • A Bushel and a Peck

Bonding with your child: Playing with your child and giving them focused attention is a great way to foster a bond that impacts their future mental, physical, social, and emotional health. Today’s Parent Article, USU Article

Pentatonic Scale: Music based on the pentatonic scale is found in all cultures world wide. It produces pleasing melodies that are easy to sing in tune. Power of Pentatonic
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Four of our songs this semester will help us explore the French language. A recent study found that simply exposing children to more than one language improved social communication skills in their own language! Exposure to other languages means exposure to different social perspectives, giving children "intensive training in perspective taking, which could make them better communicators in any language."    


Optional Home Fun Activity:
Color and cut out the pieces on page 21 for the French scene on page 27 in your workbook. 
Here is a video of our newest singable storybook, Risseldy Rosseldy!
Instrument Use
When babies are given access to simple rhythm instruments, their natural curiosity leads to exploration and repetition that encourages important developmental skills such as independence and perseverance.
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:
Our classes teach intelligent listening and understanding of classical form in a fun and interactive way. Each semester we study the timbre (tam’-ber) of various instruments and our ‘smart moves’ dances involve the whole body in an enjoyable, classical music experience.

Have a musical day!
-Ms. Bethany 🙂

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