Blue Bugs Lesson 13

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Lesson #13

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Thanks for coming this week parents! We love having you here. You are such a vital part of your child's music education!

The recital is Tuesday, May 9th from 5:45 to 6:15ish at Flint Hill Baptist Church in Fort Mill. Feel free to invite your family, extended family, neighbors or friends. Let's celebrate your child's accomplishments!

Listed below you will find the songs your student's class will be playing or singing at the recital. I will assign one or two children to "highlight" on each song. Please message me ASAP with their top 3 choices, and I'll make assignments. Then you can helpI will assign one or two children to each of the songs above. Please message me ASAP with their top 3 choices, and I'll make the assignments as soon as I hear from everyone. II will     Then  your child have an AWESOME experience by being prepared!

 

Are You Sleeping? (the highlighted students will play DO SOL DO on the bells)


Boom Boom, Ain't It Great to Be Crazy? (they will play the autoharp)


Dinosaur Song (they will play the bells)


Do Re Mi (they will play the bells while the piano plays and 1st & 2nd years all sing)


El Gallo (autoharp)


Old Paint (DO MI SOL on the bells)


Red Balloons (they will play the major scale up and down as we sing "up, up, up... and down, down, down...")

Help your child have an AWESOME experience by being prepared!

 

 
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Hokey Pokey

(We'll learn about this next week.) This fun traditional song helps to reinforce the SOL LA TI DO melodic cadence pattern. Identifying this pattern over and over again trains the ear to be sensitive to other patterns as well. We're developing intelligent listeners.

Sight Reading

This week one of our activities was to sight read the steps or skips from a given note. This is a great sign that the students are internalizing and processing several of the the concepts that we’ve been teaching. This is a crucial skill set needed to develop into a music sight reader!

Baby Butterfly / BINGO

Using the Baby Butterfly and BINGO activities we are able to see that our bugs are hiding in EVERY song! Now we’re decoding enough that the kiddos can find these rhythms on their own. Recognizing bug rhythms in songs helps the students to develop the ability to sight read better and then in 3rd year compose their own song.

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Let's practice sight reading!! Open up the Homework booklet and find the Lines & Spaces page at the back. Find some pennies, smarties, or anything that fits between the lines and play some games with your child. Not only is the "Hokey Pokey" training us to be intelligent listeners...it's a lot of fun too! Here is fun video for your kids grab them and follow along.