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Absent: Julia Baker Today Julie W., Colin and Katie presented some of what they learned this year to the parents and then received their certificates. Everyone did very well. Have a great summer! Miss Francis
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Absent: Rihannon Level 2A Lesson 39 Keegan today you worked on exercises using Bar Lines and were introduced to the tine signature 4/4. Your focus was good and you completed the whole cycl for Lesson 39 and then went to the Improv. Room to work on songs. Level 2B Lesson 40 Today Isaac completed the Practice Room [...]
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Level 1B Lesson 19 to 21 Today Julie, Katie and Colin continued to work on playing songs with “Big Notes”. This is a great step towards reading music. You will continue with more of this next year. Level 1A Lesson 12 Julia, you worked on playing with 5 fingers in the left hand. Remember to us the [...]
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Parent’s Presentation Day Today for our final class of the year, we presented some of the term’s work for your parents. Everyone did very well. It is also a learned skill to play for an audience. Thank you parents for attending. Your encouragement is invaluable to the progression of your children in music. Renee, Harrison, Avery, Jenna, [...]
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Today we did preparation work for the parent’s End of Year Presentation. Miss Francis
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Today we spent that class doing some review and ensemble playing in hope that we will present to your parents on the final class. We ended with your choice of Improv or Games. Julie and Julia are working on original songs and they sounded very good. See you next week. Miss Francis
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Absent: Keegan and Brandon Level 2B Lesson 40 Today Isaac you started a new level and learned what a Repeat Sign looks like in music and what it does. Also double bar lines and bar lines were reviewed and used in your songs. You did focus well today. Also, I enjoyed the song you made [...]
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Level 1B Lesson 19 Jenna and Avery you partnered well today. Everyone worked on the Practice Room of Lesson 18 . We did the group playing last week in which you all did very well. The lesson progressed well today Level 1A Lesson 11 Renee fine work today. Now we have to work on the [...]
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Level 1B Lesson 18, 19 Today was a great class where you all focused on the lessons very well. Julie you hand position was so much better today and you really worked out the difficulty to play with both hands on the keyboard. You completedthe Practice Room of Lesson 17 and then continue on to Lesson [...]
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Level 2A Lesson 39 Today we spent most of the class working on playing together as a group. Keegan, Isaac and Brandon this is something that requires alot of listening and focus because instead of playing by oneself, we play together with the same time and the same notes. After, Keegan started lesson 39 and Brandon [...]
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Harrison: Absent Level 1B Lesson 18 Before the lesson, Aiden, Jenna, Avery , Darian and Robbie started learning The Old Grey Goose. After practicing the song individually,you played the first phrase together as a group. This is not very easy at first but everyone did well working to play together. In the Lesson 18, you learned Mary [...]
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Level 1B Lesson 17 Katie and Colin, this lesson allowed you to continue working with both hands. One of you exercises was to play 5 notes from middle C ascending in the right hand and descending in the left. Try to begin at a speed that will allow each note be played evenly without pause. It’s ok [...]
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Level 2A Lesson 39 Both starting the lesson at the keyboards each of you created a 4 beat rhythm to clap back. This was fun to do and I like that you all were able to create a simple 4 count pattern for your peers to repeat. There are many patterns that can be done. Good work [...]
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It was so great to have everyone present for today’s class. Level 1B Lesson 15,16 Darian and Robbie had a new teacher Miss Mendelssohn. The Musical Alphabet (ABCDEFG) was highlighted to show how the notes move by step up and down. Miss Mendelssohn gave everyone songs to practice stepping up and down by note. Then in Lesson 16, you both partnered well [...]
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Absent: Julie White Glad to see everyone back this week from vacation and illness. We listened to songs by Mr. Joplin and Mr Bach to start. Level 1A Lesson 6,7 Today Julie B. you learned about the life of your new teacher Mr. Bach. You were introduced to holding notes and rhythm playbacks. In Lesson 7, you [...]
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Absent: Keegan It was great to see you all again after no class last week due to the in-service day. We started off listening to three songs written by Mrs. Beach. They were Mamma’s Waltz, Romance and Sliding on the Ice. Then we talked about Mr. Bach life. Level 2A Lesson 38 Yes the songs are getting longer [...]
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It was so good to almost have everyone present for today’s class. We did miss Robbie today, however. In Floor Time, you all hand chance to review Holding Rhythms, using the maracas to play back the rhythms to me. You all did well with this. Then we reviewed history on Mr. Bach’s life for Harrison and [...]
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Harrison: absent Today we started assessments to see what was retained from Level 1A. We will continue with them next week. 1B Lesson 15 We had a new teacher Miss Mendelssohn. Due to assessments we did not have history time to learn about her life. This will be done next week. The Musical Alphabet (ABCDEFG) [...]
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Today we had a guest as Mrs. Steele, Katie’s Mom sat in on the class. I started assessments to see what was retained for those students who completed Level 1A. Katie and Colin both completed their assesements and both of you did fine. Julie White will have hers next class. Level 1B Lesson 14 Because [...]
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Level 2A Lesson 37 Before the lesson, I asked Brandon, Isaac and Keegan to each clap a rhythm that I created with the rhythm flash cards. Remember a dotted half notes get held for 3 counts. In the lesson, we worked on Grand Staff Songs for Both Hands. These songs take a bit of concentration to keep [...]
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