I sure had a fun Monday class with the kids! We had a fun time being silly and playing and they might not have realized how much they were learning. ;) 

Remember parents come on all odd lessons, "So I'll see you next week!" (Re, Sol, Do) with tote bags, tone bells, and homework booklets. 

Keep up the good work and consistency parents! You will notice that the bell playing this week uses the lowercase solfege bells (sol and do). This is the big red bell and the green bell. You can see demonstrations of these songs in the Play at Home videos.

Goin' On a Lion Hunt

We're learning how to keep a steady beat when we sing this song. We use the varying tempo in this song to demonstrate fast and slow. What fun! Seems simple, but it's a powerful way to teach them to internalize rhythm.

Melodic Patterns

The song Let’s Play Music, Hickety Pickety, and May There Always Be Me, exposes the kids to melodic patterns that have a strong cadence pull to "DO". These patterns help the child to sing in tune and trains the ear to hear how songs should end.

Boom Boom

We introduced this fun song today. This song helps us recognize a melodic pattern, (SO, DO) and help us keep a consistent steady beat. Very soon we’ll be using it to practice the autoharp and read our chord music! 

NEW Melodic Pattern

The SOL SOL DO pattern was introduced today! Your student will start to notice this pattern with their ears and then their eyes everywhere... even to the cheerios floating in their cereal. They are little sponges. 

May There Always Be Me

Today we learned the term ‘lullaby’. 

Today during "May There Always be Me", we rocked stuffed animal babies to the steady beat of the music. We talked about how a soft song that makes us feel sleepy is called a lullaby. I love how last week they got to rock with you! Music is healing and can help us feel emotions. Music is powerful and every child needs music in their life. And not just for the reasons and benefits we normally think of as music educators. Read Carson's story and witness how the power of music aided in healing a traumatic event in his young life.  

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Thank you!