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Hello! Room 151 at WC Little continues to be a fun and productive spot on Wednesday afternoons. =) Ariana is making excellent progress, and completed Lesson 30 this week. When you complete lesson 30, this unlocks 2 new games in the games room, so she was quite happy. Her hand position, finger independence and note [...]
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We continue to make great progress each week in the library at Goodfellow! Great to see Paige again this week! Good job to those of you who are remembering to come to the library before the bell rings for break! A reminder to everyone though that the workbooks should be coming back each week, with [...]
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This class is going really well! This week after we had completed our lessons and reviewed our worksheets, we did some improv to make up a “soundscape” to go with a fun book I have called “Charlie Parker Played Be Bop”. It is written to sound like the rhythms of Be Bop, and is inspired [...]
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Hello, and welcome back for a spring term! We had a great class! Ariana is our new student, and she did a great job in Lesson 26 today, the lesson where our older beginners start. This is the first lesson in CMJ volume 2. She learned about the high notes on the right and low [...]
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We had a great class with only 3 students this week! Abby completed lesson 31 with Mr. Mozart, where she learned about the dotted half note, a note that gets held for 3 beats. It looks just like a half note with a dot after it. She can review Lesson 31 at home and complete [...]
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We had a great first class back at Goodfellow, with all the same people in the class we just picked up where we left off. The 2B students’ main job this term is to get really comfortable reading and playing on the Grand Staff, adding more notes and building up some fluency in their reading. [...]
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We had a fabulous first class back after the March break, with several new and returning students. everyone did really well in their lessons at the keyboards, we had some time on the floor to review concepts from the lessons and do some rhythms together. Then we went back to the keyboards for some improvisation [...]
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Hello! It was great to see everyone at class today. We had a different structure to our class today, which started with some rhythm activities on the carpet with a djembe drum. Then we moved to the keyboards in Concertmaster where we did some playbacks (I sang 3 notes and you played them back to [...]
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Level 1 Today’s class was a big one for the Level 1s – they completed Lesson 30 today, which unlocks 2 new games in the game room. We started off on the floor with a little intro to whole notes, half notes, and quarter notes. This is very mathematical: whole notes get held for 4 [...]
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Great class today! We started on the carpet to check worksheets, do some sight singing with the new notes for the 2As in the LH, Bass Clef C B A, and did a new rhythm/history/movement/listening activity I’m trying out based on Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, Mov. 2. It went really well, great participation and it was [...]
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We had a fun class today. We started on the carpet for a new rhythm/history/movement/listening activity I’m trying out based on Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, Mov. 2. It went really well, great participation and it was neat to see the kids applying what we have been practicing all year with the rhythm cards. From there we [...]
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I was so happy to see you all come to the library before the bell even rang today. Nice work – it set us up for a very productive session. We started with our CMJ Lessons, and then went to the carpet for a new rhythm/history/movement/listening activity I’m trying out based on Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, [...]
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Today we started off the class with a fun rhythm/listening/history activity using our ability to read rhythms that use eighth notes, quarter notes, and quarter rests, and Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, movement 2. Nice job, we had great participation. After our lessons at the pianos we did some improvising again at the keyboards, and some playbacks, [...]
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We had a very good class today! I’m so proud of my 2As and how well they are learning to read songs with C D E on the Treble Staff. We started out our class together on the carpet where we learned about rhythms in triplets (eighth notes in groups of 3 instead of in [...]
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We have been having a lot of fun at Mapleview Heights the last few weeks. As some of you know I write the curriculum and lesson plans for all the MusIQ Clubs, and I have been looking at ways to incorporate more activities into our program away from the keyboards that encourage whole-body participation in [...]
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We had a very fun class today! I’m so proud of my 2As and how well they are learning to read songs with C D E on the Treble Staff. Little Katherine especially is reading these notes very confidently! Please remind your children that on Tuesdays they are to come to the library instead of [...]
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Another great class with this fun bunch of students! Lots of energy in this class means we keep things moving and get a lot done each week! I’m also happy to see so many workbooks coming back with completed worksheets! Don’t forget the song sheets at the back, too, you can start playing those as [...]
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