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.

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.

DO, RE, MI 2nd Verse

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

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.

Baby Bumblebee
Sing this well known song with your child this week. I will be asking them about it in class the next week and I want them to be familiar with it. Baby Bumblebee
           
Those little frogs LOVE to go “a-hoppin’!!” Want to make your own hoppin’ frog? Watch this video.

Watch this video to see how our frogs LEAP across the bells! You can play along too!

The homework for lesson 10 is the beginning skill of dictation. Dictation is the ability to write music, knowing where to put the notes is the first step. We are preparing them to write their own composition in the 3rd Year of Let’s Play Music! Your kids are getting so smart! 

Music can change lives! It can be anywhere and it can be beautiful! What a gift you are giving your children! Check out how in this video.

Our new puppet show was written by Gioachino Antonio Rossini, who was born on February 29 (leap year!), 1792 in Italy to a family of musicians. His father played the horn and his mother was a singer. He was just six years old when he joined his father’s band – he played the triangle. When he was only 10 years old, he was asked often to play the piano and sing at their church. At that age, he began composing and soon became the most celebrated composer of Italian Opera. Our puppet show, “The Fox Hunt” is from the William Tell Overture. This famous piece has been imitated and heard in various “rock-n-roll” forms all over the world! Here are the puppets if you want to print your own!