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Everyone worked hard today at the start of class in Concertmaster to prepare for our recital next week! Please continue to practice your songs for the recital, which will take place in room 150 on Wednesday, May 31st at 10:50 pm. I have really enjoyed working with your children this Semester and hope to see everyone back [...]
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We had a great class today and everyone worked really hard on their lessons. Sorry for the late post, I was away! I hope that everyone had a wonderful long weekend. Please practice your songs for the recital, which will take place in room 150 on Wednesday, May 31st at 10:50 pm. Beginner Level 1 [...]
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We had a great class today! On the floor, we started off by talking about the life of Mr. Beethoven, and then we listened to some of the second movement of his Beethoven’s 7th Symphony while following the rhythms played by the strings. You were all amazed to learn that he wrote one of the [...]
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Great job today everyone! After reviewing and introducing new concepts to everyone, we spent time on the keyboards where some of us completed our lessons, others worked on their songs, and everyone played some games in the games room. Then we finished up with some rhythm reading on the floor. This time, we used some [...]
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We had a great class today where we began in Concertmaster! First, we all took turns improvising on the black keys to “Blues on Black”. Just to remember to use your right hand on the higher notes of the piano keyboard and play one note at a time. I was really impressed with some of the melodies that [...]
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What a great class today! We started off with some rhythms and sight-singing in treble clef on the floor, before heading to the keyboards where we did some note playbacks in Concertmaster and talked about the patterns of the black keys. Good work everyone. I would like to remind everyone to bring their notenooks with them [...]
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Yes, this is Week 3, sorry for the mistake with last week’s post! What a great class today! We worked on finger numbers and practiced our finger dexterity to “Crazy Frog”. Everyone did a great job with their lessons and almost everyone brought their folders today… wonderful! We missed Taylor and look forward to seeing [...]
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We had a great time in class today and everyone worked really hard on their lessons. I would like to remind the class to bring their booklets to each class so that I can review and assign new homework pages, and work on their songs. We missed James today and look forward to seeing him next week. During [...]
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It was great to see so many familiar faces returning to MusIQ class today! We would also like to welcome our new students, Victoria, Hailey and Aaron. It was also wonderful to see Sebastian back in our class again. What an enthusiastic bunch of kids! Thanks so much for registering, and for recognizing the important role that music education plays in [...]
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What a great class today! We began in Concertmaster, where we did some improvisation to “Reflections” and practiced our songs for the Recital next week. We would love it if you could join us for the Recital on Wednesday at 10:50 am, which will be held in room 150, unless we are able to use the [...]
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Great work on your lessons today everyone! If everyone could remind their teachers in their agendas that they need to leave their classes 5 min. before the bell to come to MusIQ class, that would be great! Especially since we only have one more class until our recital! It would be great to see more [...]
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We had a great class today where everyone worked hard in Concertmaster! First, we all took turns improvising on the white keys to “Reflecting” and then we made up our own songs on the blakc keys to “Blues on Black”. Just to remember to use your right hand on the higher notes of the piano [...]
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Everyone worked really hard in class today! Some of us are still forgetting to bring our booklets in. It would be great if you could remember for next class and I would really like to see how their homework and songs are coming along! We started the class with some review and introduction of new [...]
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We had a wonderful class today! After reviewing some concepts and talking about our teachers while the students ate their lunch, we spent some time in Concertmaster where we learned about the black key patterns and played “I Spy a Note”, as well as doing some note playbacks and working on “Hot Cross Buns”, “Upside [...]
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I apologise for not teaching the class last week as I was ill. Miss. Jennifer did an amazing job and I know that everyone had a great time! As I did not teach the class, I was unable to post what was covered that day. If I could remind everyone to please bring their booklets [...]
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I have had so much fun working with your kids this Semester! They are an enthusiastic group who really enjoy learning about music. We would like to show you some of the songs that we have been working on and invite you to the school library during our class next week (Wed. Dec. 14) at 10:50 [...]
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Great work on your lessons and songs today everyone! just a reminder to bring your books to our next class as we will be working on our Christmas songs! I apologise for the late post as it was a very busy weekend! Beginner Level 1 Today in Class Today we spent some time in the Improvisation [...]
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Great work today everyone! Don’t forget to keep practicing your songs as our recital is only a couple of classes away. I was impressed with the fact that almost everyone had their notebooks today! I managed to check some homework, but as we only have 40 minutes it is difficult to mark it all, especially if there is a few [...]
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What a great class today! We all worked hard on our lessons and the recital songs are coming along nicely. It is hard to believe that it is class number 4 already! Don’t forget to keep practicing your songs as we will be playing them at our recital which will be held during the last class of this semester. I would [...]
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Today, we started off the class in “Concertmaster” where we looked at patterns in the black keys and how to use the patterns to find “C” and “F”. We also did some Letter Name playbacks with our Right Hand notes C, D, E, F and G before playing some rhythms on Middle “C”. I was [...]
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