NEED TO KNOW
Red Balloons #3: Thanks to all the grownups that came to class this week! Thanks for participating and enjoying your time together with your students. What a gift to spend quality time with these children, bonding and creating fun music memories!
HOMEWORK HELP: The Let's Play Music company has made a new "Homework Booklet Answer Key" page. Check it out any time you wonder about the homework assignment or just want to make sure you're doing it right! You can get there by scanning the QR code on the back of the homework booklet. That will take you to a page with Skills Videos, and at the very top it has a few links: one to purchase access to full class videos, and another to access theory answer keys. Click on the "1st Year" link and you're there!
NEXT WEEK: Next week is another kid-only day, so drop them off with their workbook and be ready to get them in 45 minutes!
GOOD TO KNOW
BARNYARD BOOGIE: This peppy song is even more fun when you realize we are imitating and identifying complex rhythmic patterns! Start with clapping them slowly like we did in class, and soon your students will clap them correctly at the speed the recording does it!
STAFF AWARENESS: We started identifying lines and spaces on the staff. They are going to be masters of how the staff works! Next year when we start to add things to the staff like clefs, notes, and key signatures, their brains will already have the structure and function of the staff solidified, and the rest is like icing on a cake!
PLAYING AN OSTINATO ON THE BELLS: An ostinato is a repeated musical pattern that is played at the same time as a separate melody. We did this today as we played DO SOL on the bells while singing the song "Hear How the Bells." Our ears are getting SOL smart!
FUN TO KNOW
I love this comedy routine from the show "Bring the Funny" a few years back. It goes along so well with our discussion of balloons in the wires! Enjoy it here. The balloon guy even has red shoes and red tape to be like our RED BALLOONS!
