Today in MusIQ Club!

This week completed our 3rd lesson of MusIQ Club!  So far Mr Beethoven has taught us that the piano goes from low notes all the way up to high notes.  Middle C is the middle key and is very important to finding all the other keys on the piano keyboard.  We’ve also learned that just like we have letters and sentences to make language, music also has letters and sentences.  The Grand Staff is where these “musical sentences” are written.  Mr Beethoven and Miss Melody have also been teaching us about rhythms.  This is a little trickier.  In the game room Bongo Boy plays a rhythm on his bongo drums.  Then we have to play it back.  Many students find this very difficult and sometimes frustrating at first.  Ways to practice at home are to make up silly sentences that have rhythms.  Clap the rhythms and have your child repeat the rhythm back to you.  This helps students to identify longer and shorter beats, which are very important for when we begin to learn about holding notes in another week.  In our class time we have been learning about our finger numbers, the musical alphabet and the Grand Staff.

Here are a couple fun worksheets that you can use to practice what we have learned in class:  worksheet 1, worksheet 2

I look forward to seeing everyone again next week!

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