Today in MusIQ Club!

We all spent time listening to different pieces of music today to hear what kind of pictures they paint for our ears. We heard a piece about Wasps, one about a Garden in the Rain and one about Clouds. Great listening everyone!

Lesson 11:

Today we met with our new teacher. His name was Mr. Scott Joplin, and he was alive about 100 years ago. Isn’t it great that even though his parents had no money, his mother was able to get jobs cleaning houses for the rich so her son could play on their pianos to practice? Someone even agreed to give him lessons for free!

Mr. Joplin taught us how to make a 5-finger ant tunnel with our right hand. He also taught us that each of our fingers has a number, with our thumb being finger #1 and each other finger is a number counting up from 1. Make sure you always have your thumb on Middle C and that each finger is playing a neighbor note!

After this lesson, we spent some time practicing with Miss Melody, and then we went to the Games Room where we had a few new games! Nice to meet you! See you next week!

Home Assignments For The Week & Reminders:

1- Print out and complete this worksheet!

1- Practice forming your 5-finger ant tunnel, and playing with all of your fingers ever day!

2- Print out some songs from this page so that you can practice playing with your 5-finger ant tunnels and remember your finger numbers!

Lesson 38:

In today’s class with Mrs. Beach, we learnt a few more songs on the Grand Staff that require us to use both of our hands at the same time. You all did a great job with this, and we spent even more time getting used to playing with both hands during our practice session with Miss Melody.

After such hard work, we took some time to relax in the games room, and then you all went to the improvisation room. Then the bell rang! Look at how time flies by when you are having fun! See you all next week!

Home Assignments For The Week & Reminders:

1- Keep practicing Row, Row, Row from last week.

2- Spend some time improvising every day!

3- 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! See you there!

4- Print out and complete your weekly activity sheet!