Posted on January 12, 2011 by marlewis
Hello! It’s neat to see all the kids becoming so comfortable together … this has created a great atomosphere for learning for each of them! In class: 2A/B : Julia . Nikita We started off right into our lessons. Julia on lesson 31, “The Grand Staff and Middle C” and Nikita lesson 36, “Rhythm Tapping”. [...]
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Posted on January 12, 2011 by marlewis
Hello everyone! It was great to meet you all today and I look forward to teaching you this session! This blog will have a new posting every week so that you can see what we learned in class and what can be worked on at home. Hopefully this will allow you to be a part [...]
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Posted on January 9, 2011 by marlewis
Welcome back!! It was really good to see you all again. I hope everyone had great holidays and are well rested up! For our first class we plunged right back into our lessons! Then we finished off by playing our own improv solos through Concertmaster where we can hear ourselves play aloud. I think that [...]
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Posted on December 9, 2010 by marlewis
Hello! I hope everyone was safe last night! It was pretty crazy out there. Today is so pretty with the sun shining on all our fresh snow! We can discuss credits next week for this missed class. I hope you all can make it to our recital next week! We will still hold our usual [...]
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Posted on November 29, 2010 by marlewis
Hello everyone! I’m sorry this posting is later than usual. We missed you in class Julia! 2A : Julia . Cealina . Nikita In class we started off by completing lesson 33 : “The Treble Clef: C, D, and E” with Mr. Mozart. This lesson added two new notes on our Grand Staff. D and [...]
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Posted on November 19, 2010 by marlewis
Hello! Great job tonight everyone!! We had a special performance at the end of our class by Rebecca and Cealina. They both had written their own songs at home and brought them in to share with us! Thanks for playing your songs for us girls! Everyone else was very courteous and were eager to listen [...]
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Posted on November 14, 2010 by marlewis
Well … we had a great Recital on Saturday!! Thank you to all the families and friends that came out to see what your children have been learning! They had a lot of fun showing you all what they can do on the piano. They all should be very proud of themselves! They are all [...]
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Posted on November 14, 2010 by marlewis
Hello everyone! We had a really good night last class … just a little crazy at the end! Must have been a full moon Today in class: 2A : Cealina . Nikita . Julia In class, we completed lesson 30. It was “Review” with Mr. Dvorak. We spent some time in the Games Room and [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2010 by marlewis
Hello again! Thanks for checking our blog all of these weeks! We have had a great session and are now coming to our last class … which you are all invited to!! You can bring your children to class at 9:30, we will have one last short class, then you are welcome to join us [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2010 by marlewis
Hello! This week we spent more time in our class playing with Concertmaster where we can hear ourselves play out loud. Everyone is doing a great job with getting their hands into middle C position! 2A We started our class off with some review on the floor and then had a big game of “the [...]
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Posted on November 1, 2010 by marlewis
Hello! Happy Halloween! In class on Saturday, we all did some practice with writing rhythms on the whiteboard and then clapping them out loud. This really helped with a transition to the rhythm section on the computer. It did seem fairly obvious to me that the highlight of the class was Peer Gynt. You [...]
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Posted on October 29, 2010 by marlewis
Hello Everyone! Thanks for a very productive night on Wednesday! It was good to see you back, Nikita and Cealina! Now you have 2 little friends in your level Julia! Rebecca and Hayden are moving along very well and are making a good team with helping each other. This is a fun class! Today [...]
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Posted on October 23, 2010 by marlewis
Hello! Great week guys! We missed you Ceilina and Nikita! Hope to see you next week. Welcome to you Julia … and thanks for joining our class for the evening Justin! Today in Class : 2A : Julia . Justin (Ceilina & Nikita) We started our class off on the floor with some review. We [...]
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Posted on October 23, 2010 by marlewis
Hello everyone! Thanks again for another great class. Here’s a little glimpse of what we did today! We all started off our class with some Rhythm Clapping and some Finger Number practice. 1A Eric . Sam . Isitha . Hongyue We began on the computer with lesson 6 today. Mr. Bach was our new teacher [...]
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Posted on October 16, 2010 by marlewis
Hello everyone! Thanks for a great third class at the Holly Centre! I will be adding blogs every week now up to week 7 on this site. You can check it in between our classes to see what we did in class and what can be done at home. This Week in Class: 1A : [...]
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Posted on October 15, 2010 by marlewis
Hello everyone! Thanks for a great first week! I am very excited to be working with you all. I hope that over these next 9 weeks, we can discover music together and have a lot of fun learning. I will be posting a blog here every week. It will let you know what we did [...]
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Posted on May 19, 2010 by marlewis
Great class on saturday everyone! Next week is our last class … and all your family is invited to join us for the last half of the class (at 1:30) We will give you a little concert and show you a bit of what we have been learning in Musiqclub! I look forward to seeing [...]
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Posted on May 14, 2010 by marlewis
Hello everyone! Today our highlight was playing a new instrument … the djembe (jam.bay) drum from Africa. We first practice our 4-beat rhythms, then we all had a chance to make our own songs on the drum! Great job guys! This Week in Class 1A Today we completed lesson 7 where we have been learning [...]
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Posted on May 2, 2010 by marlewis
Hello! We had a fun class yesterday! Good to see you back Lucy! This Week in Class 1A Today we learned that music can tell a story and make us have different feelings. First we listened to a song called In the Hall of the Mountain King by Grieg. It told us the story of [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2010 by marlewis
Hello everyone! We had a great class tonight even though we missed you Tyler and Hayzel! This Week in Class 1A (Hannah & Ryleigh) Tonight we reviewed lesson 5 where we listened to Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven. We discussed how this song made us feel as we closed our eyes and listened. We also moved on [...]
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