Today in MusIQ Club!

Lesson 12:

What an exciting class we had today! We met Mr. Joplin again in the Lesson Room and he taught us how to form a 5 finger ant tunnel with our Left Hand! He also showed us the finger numbers on this hand! Afterward, we spent some time in the practice room with Miss Melody, working on our left hand even more!

After all this hard work, we spent some time playing some games, and then many of you went to the Library and used the computer to learn your very first songs on the piano! Some of you played Row Row Row your Boat, and others played A Tisket A Tasket! WOW! Isn’t it neat that we are finally playing songs that everyone can recognize!

Home Assignments For The Week & Reminders:

1- Keep working on your 5 finger ant tunnels in both hands! You are all doing a great job with this!

2- Keep finding different notes on the piano, don’t forget to use all 5 of your fingers to play them!

3- Practice playing different intervals to yourself, this will help you all get even better at the Cliffhanger (Jungle Boy & Jungle Girl) game!

4- See you all next week!

Lesson 39:

Today, we met with Mrs. Beach to learn about Bar Lines and playing while counting in 4/4 time. You all did an excellent job with this! After our lesson, we went to see Miss Melody in the practice room.

After an excellent practice session, you all headed over to the Games Room to spend some time relaxing and having fun with the different games. We then finished off the class with a little time in the Improvisation Room. Great work everyone! See you all next week!

Home Assignments For The Week & Reminders:

1- Try printing out a Grand Staff from here
and write down some of the melodies you come up with while improvising. Feel free to bring them to class next week! (No one brought anything in this week, so we are going to give it another try for next week!)

2- Keep working on the songs I have offered over the last few weeks. We might play a few of these in class next week.

3- Try writing out different 4/4 melodies and then play them back to you. Make sure to place middle C 4 times before starting!

Lesson 49:

In our lesson with Mr. Satie today, we got to play Old MacDonald and a few other songs. Playing the songs through, took up a good portion of the class, and we then went to practice with Miss Melody in the Practice Room.

Before playing games, we took some time to quickly review our note reading skills as well as our finger numbers.

To finish off the class, we went to the Games Room, and then we headed over to the Improvisation Room to try playing different songs using various instruments. Good work everyone! See you all next week!

Home Assignments For The Week & Reminders:

1- Print out a copy of Row, Row, Row, if you didn’t last week, and spend some time practicing it.

2- Keep working on Old Grey Goose.

3- Improvise every day and always have FUN!

Filed under: Grosvenor-Wentworth Park Elementary