Thanks for coming to class this week, parents! It was great to see you!

When doing the album listening and bell practice you may at times feel it is non-essential ‘busy work’ and one more ‘to do’ for you to accomplish that week. Keep in mind each LPM activity does have a purpose and that the key to successful musicianship and smarter kids are parents willing to take the time to do small and simple things daily in a fun playful way. These activities may seem insignificant, but the final product will astound you. Stay focused on the end goal and the play practice time will seem more meaningful. These booklet activities also prepare them for more at home play and practice that begins next year when they start on the keyboards. Just in case you get confused at which homework page you do during the week, it coincides with the Lesson # in the weekly email, so for this week you'll do Lesson #13's homework page. If you ever miss a week, you are always welcome to go back and do it later, but please try focusing on the current week we are on then go back 

In a Humble Manger

This is a fun song to help kids understand how to keep a steady beat. We also talked about the term lullaby.

Pull Away

With this song we also participated in what a steady beat feels like and our ears heard the MI RE DO pattern! Each song helps us to internalize many facets of music.

Let's Play Music

Today our ears heard layers of sound as we sang the MI RE DO and SOL SOL DO ending to “Let’s Play Music” at the same time. Singing in harmony helps us to sing in tune and eventually sing in parts.

DO RE MI

YES! WE READ MUSIC TODAY in our DO RE MI activity! So exciting! We are teaching our students to read by relationships, (steps, skips, leaps) not by note names. This is a more natural way to teach children to read music and it produces better sight readers because their brain isn’t bogged down with have to interpret the note names yet.

Great Big Red Balloon

Today we practiced visualizing the staff. In putting a note up on the staff and covering it, we let the children close their eyes and see it in their heads. If they can see it in their heads, they learn to internalize the staff and where the notes sit on the staff. Staff visualization ultimately results in learning to quickly read music. 

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