Reminder - No class next week for Spring Break! I'll see your kids in class again on March 27th

Thank you for coming to class, parents! It's always great to have you there and the kids impressively showed you their awesome skills. They are doing a great job and it's been a lot of fun to watch them learn and grow. We still have a little less than half of the semester to go and we will continue to learn and grow together. 

As I mentioned in last week's email, March is Let's Play Music Spirit Month and the Let's Play Music company is hosting weekly prizes all month long on their Instagram @letsplaymusic_official. Today we celebrated our Let's Play Music Spirit in class and I introduced a studio contest! Fill out the Contest Google Form to enter the contest. There are four fields you can fill in and each one is an entry to the contest (five fields if you have a second child in my studio). You have until Friday March 28th to enter and I'll announce the winner on Monday March 31st. The prize is a Yoto Mini mp3 Player and a card preloaded with the album soundtrack for the LPM semester your child is in right now!!

I am so grateful to each of you for being a part of my studio! I love teaching your kids and I feel so lucky to teach this incredible program to them. I love Let's Play Music because it ingeniously teaches music in an age-appropriate way infusing play, fun, confidence building, and so much more. Keep feeling and sharing the love of Let's Play Music this month and share that love with your friends. Most people find out about Let's Play Music from their friends so please reach out to friends you feel would love this program. Below you'll find info on the studio contest as well as info on the national contest. (Click the picture!)

Bug Scale

We can now play UP the C Major Scale with our RH! Place the RH in C position and play with fingers 1-2-3 (CDE) then POP UNDER with the thumb to make a new bubble and continue playing with fingers 1-2-3-4-5 (FGABC). Choose your favorite BUG to practice this new skill. One way to remind where to pop is to insert POP with the bug like this: Butterfly, Butterfly, Butterfly, POPPERfly, Butterfly, etc. As always, we try to make our technique drills so fun that the kids don't even notice they are getting practice!

A Warm Welcome to Middle B and Middle D

The 5 anchor notes used in 2nd year include the members of the “C” family: Treble C, Middle C, and Bass C and the Middle Friends including Middle B who is B-elow Middle C and Middle D who is Down under the first line on the staff.

How to Skip

We will master all of our middle anchor notes with this song: Middle B, Middle C, Middle D. Use the same 3 fingers for the entire song: 1-3-5. Simply move your thumb to the appropriate starting note. Sing "C-skip-skip-skip, D-skip-skip" etc. emphasizing each anchor note. This is where the practice of seeing and playing those middle anchor notes connect! 

I Am Robin Hood

If your child can play each hand of "I am Robin Hood" comfortably, they are ready to put both hands together! Isolate 1 or 2 measures at a time to have a successful experience, then continue to add 1-2 measures until they can play the entire song with confidence! While practicing with your child, you can guide their eyes by pointing note by note with V fingers. Hooray for Hands Together!

How instinctive is your child getting with their keyboard geography playing the Alphabet Pieces Game? Time your child for 1 minute and see how many pieces they can put on the piano. Your student will treasure this craft and game idea as they continue to solidify all of the notes on the keyboard!

I absolutely love the March of the Gnomes puppet show! Click here to download this puppet show's coloring page!

I value open and honest communication so please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, concerns, or comments.

Thank you!