Today in MusIQ Club!

Hi Everyone!  This week was our 5th week in MusIQ Club.  We are already half way through our first session!  We’ve learned so much in just 5 classes.  We’ve learned the musical alphabet, that the piano goes from low to high notes, that Middle C is a very important note and how we can find it, and we’re learning rhythms.  Miss Melody has taught us lots of songs using high, low and middle C notes and now we can play those notes to a rhythm!

A lot of us are still having trouble repeating rhythms.  When we visit Bongo Boy, he plays a rhythm and we have to repeat it back to him by playing Middle C.  Our little fingers are still getting used to the piano keyboard, so this is very challenging.  At home or at school we should practice by playing a clapping game with our friends and family.  Play a rhythm of just a few beats and then have a friend repeat it.  Then have them play a rhythm and you repeat it!  This is a really fun game.  Like Mr Beethoven does in his lesson, you can also make up silly sentences and say them in a rhythm.   Remember “I Like Puppy Dogs”  You can say this to the rhythm “1, 2, 3and4″

You can practice writing your musical alphabet with this worksheet.

If you have a piano at home or the picture of the piano keyboard (like on your last worksheet.), you can also practice finding the groups of 2 black keys, 3 black keys and Middle C!

See you all next week!

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