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Today, we had a great class! After clapping some rhythms on the floor and intoducing the 1As to their new teacher, Mr. Bach, the 1Bs and the 2As had a lot of fun with Concertmaster where they did melodic playbacks and worked on their song “Love Somebody”. Everyone had fun in the games room today, [...]
Filed under: Sunnybrae Elementary, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
We had another good day at MusIQ. The students are working on different levels. Student J.B-C. played the Bus Game, which is a game to introduce holding notes and rhythm. He also played Hot Cross Buns and Upside down Buns on Lesson 22. N. told about her trip to Toronto. She and her friend E. [...]
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Today we had a good class in our new venue in the French Room. Several of the students had Mr. Bach for a teacher today. They are working on “holding notes” and have to hold down certain notes for a specified time while the computer counts off 1-2-3-4. This concept is reinforced by the “Train [...]
Filed under: Crichton Park Elementary, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Hello everyone, This week in musiq club we started off with week one as there was no class last week. This week’s lessons in piano suite included a review of the c major scale for the right hand and looking at chords, triads, in different inversions. There was also a great deal of sight-reading sheet [...]
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This week in musiq club Grace and Ledamaria continued with their work on high notes, low notes, and middle c [in between]. They did very well with this lesson which was a continuation of last week’s work on a similar topic. Liam worked on the lesson called ‘Musical steps, musical alphabet’ which introduces students to the concept [...]
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Hello everyone, This week in musiq club everyone worked on their lesson called ‘Musical steps, musical alphabet’ which introduces students to the concept of the letter system being used to name the white keys on the scale of the keyboard. Everyone did well with this new concept of thinking about music and had time to go [...]
Filed under: Basinview Drive Community School | Leave a Comment »
Today students reviewed Musical Alphabet , Finger numbers and Middle C Position with Mr Dvorak. We repeated 4/4 time signature ,lines and double bar lines with Mrs. Beach. We also Played with a Steady Beat with Mr. Satie.
Filed under: Westmount Elementary | Leave a Comment »
Today, we had a very exciting and fun class! Jennifer introduced most of the students to Concertmaster where they did some ear training and they all got to learn to play a song together. I introduced the 1A’s to my djembe (pronouced “Zhem-Bay”) which is an African drum made out of a hollowed out log and some goat skin. After that, the 1A’s clapped [...]
Filed under: Algonquin Ridge Elementary School, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Today students reviewed High and Low notes, found a High C, a Low C, and Middle C with Mr. Beethoven and Mr. Bach. They practiced with Miss Melody and played in the Games Room. Advanced students repeated Musical Alphabet and practiced in “Making a 5-finger Ant Tunnel”
Filed under: Windsor Street Childcare Center | Leave a Comment »
Hi Everyone! Today we had a fun class! We began with some playbacks using all our finger numbers in both hands. Then I showed you how to play C major scale using a technique called a ‘thumb tuck’. Remember, there are 8 notes in a scale, and the special code for playing scales is 1 [...]
Filed under: Creative Kids Education Centre | Leave a Comment »
Hi Everyone! We began our lesson today with a fun rhythm circle. We all had a different untuned percussion instrument and we improvised 4 beat rhythms together. After a few bars we switched instruments. You were great at keeping the beat, even when I changed the tempo and we played faster or slower! Then I [...]
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My Mapleview Heights rock stars were great today, as usual! Lots of good work today: Bridget did a great job, completing Lesson 9, after completing 5-8 at home. I checked over what she had done inbetween and everything looked good, so we went ahead with Lesson 9, where she learned about notes that get higher [...]
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Welcome back, after our break last week! So great to see you all! Beginner 1As Today I located both Aidan and Aiden and we completed Lesson 3, where Mr. Beethoven taught us about the long and short sounds that make up music, starting with the short and long sounds that make up the rhythm of [...]
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Hi everyone, This week in class Sydney, Vance, Megan and our guest student Cassie all focused on the musical steps of the musical alphabet which names the white keys on the keyboard. Kira meanwhile worked on her lesson for the day titled ‘Right hand F’ with Mr. Tchaikovsky, playing the note of F in the [...]
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Hi everyone, This week in class Alexander, Cassidy and Isabella worked on the high note/low note game in their lesson to learn the relative position and pitch of the notes of the keyboard as well as where middle c is, continuing on from last week, having now been introduced to the groups of black keys [...]
Filed under: Kingswood Elementary | Leave a Comment »
Today students learned about high and low notes. Discussed the life of Beethoven. We also studied/repeated CMJ software components the 5 “rooms”: Lesson room, Practice room, Games room, Library room and Improvisation room. We have practiced in 3 of them. Advanced students learned “ant tunnels” with Mr. Joplin and middle-C position with Mr. Villa Lobos.
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The weather was terrible this morning, and we were missing half the class. I am still unable to get my car back up my driveway it is so slippery! I hope everyone was able to make it to school safely, and please be in touch with me about make up classes. The intrepid Melissa was [...]
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O-O-O-O-O-O we were a bit rusty this week, not surprising as we hadn’t met for two weeks and we have been learning a lot of new things lately. Scales continue to improve. Keep remembering to sit up straight, keep elbows relaxed, and keep your thumbs really flexible for thumb tucks so you don’t need to [...]
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