Today in MusIQ Club!

Hello Parents! This is what we did in class today for MusIQ Club week 6, please see below for homework and worksheet assignments. We did some general review while eating lunches, The kids are getting very good at their musical alphabet both up and down, they know finger numbers like the back of their hands, [...]

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Hello Parents! Welcome to week 5 of our class blog, we are halfway through our session already. This week we learned all the rests while eating our lunches. We saw how each note value had a rest of equivalent duration. For example the whole note and whole rest are both worth 4 beats. Then we made [...]

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Hello Parents! Wow, week five of MusIQ Club already. This is what we did in class, please see below for homework and worksheet assignments. After eating our lunches I got Lachlan, Jo, Joseph, and Ethan working on their next lesson 18 – “More Playing and Singing songs” with Miss Fanny Mendelssohn. They worked on learning some cool new songs [...]

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Hello Parents! Welcome to week 4 of our class blog. I started with Lauren and Devin reviewing some theory and we were soon joined by Hannah and Josh who were a tiny bit late because they were on a field trip skating!  We reviewed note values, but spent most of our time working on reading from the [...]

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Hello Parents! This was our fourth week of MusIQ Club. After eating our lunches I got Lachlan, Jo, Joseph, and Ethan working on their lesson 17 – “Playing and singing songs” with Miss Fanny Mendelssohn. While they started I worked with the girls to review a few things. Sandra reviewed the musical alphabet, finding all the C [...]

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Hello Parents! Welcome to week 3 of our class blog. Devin was not at MusIQ Club today but the office indicated he was absent. Hannah was also missing and I had the office call her but she did not show up. I strongly recommend for parents to include a note with your child’s lunch on Thursdays [...]

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Hello Parents! This was week three of MusIQ Club. After eating our lunches I got Lachlan, Jo and Ethan working on their lesson 15 – “More Musical Steps” with Mr. Joplin. While they started I worked with the girls to review a few things. Sandra reviewed the musical alphabet, finding all the C notes on [...]

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Hello Parents! Welcome to week 2 of our class blog. I will be posting homework assignments here as well as keeping you, the parent, updated as to what we cover in each class. Everyone made it to class today but I still recommend for parents to please include a note with your child’s lunch on Thursdays [...]

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Hello Parents! This was second week of MusIQ Club for Kyra, Daphne, Lachlan, Joseph, Jo, Sandra and Ethan. Away from the computers we ate our lunches and took that time to review some important information.  We reviewed ”two black keys down to C” to help us find the note C on the keyboard and also “three [...]

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Hello Parents! Welcome to our class blog. I will be posting homework assignments here as well as keeping you, the parent, updated as to what we cover in each class. I was glad to see Josh back again for the second term of MusIQ Club and very happy to welcome Devin, Hannah and Lauren to our [...]

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Hello Parents! Welcome to our class blog. I will be posting homework assignments here as well as keeping you, the parent, updated as to what we cover in each class. I was glad to see Kyra, Daphne, Lachlan, Joseph and Jo back again for the second term of MusIQ Club and very happy to welcome [...]

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Hello Parents and Students, Today was our last day for MusIQ Club this term. We started away from the computers and Keyboards with a Practice teat to see how much of the musical concepts we have learned so far everyone remembered. Intervals went very well, we are still struggling with notes on the grand staff, but everyone [...]

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Hello Parents, Today in MusIQ Club we started with a review of the information we learned about our new teacher Mr. Scott Joplin, composer of ragtime music! Lachlan, Joseph, Clara, & Jo  (Kate & Gracie were absent) started out on their lessons today they did 2 lessons! In lesson 11 with Mr. Joplin they learned [...]

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Hello Parents and Students, Today in musIQ Club we started away from the computers and Keyboards with a review of some musical concepts. We talked about the fingering for the C major scale, right hand, left hand, and contrary motion with two hands. We talked about the difference between legato and staccato and how to make [...]

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Hello Parents, Today in MusIQ Club we started with a review of how to clap holding notes. We also reviewed the musical alphabet and then finger numbers. We learned about our new teacher who we will be meeting next week, Mr. Scott Joplin, composer of ragtime music! We moved on to our lessons next. Lachlan, Joseph, Clara, Gracie, Kate & [...]

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Hello Parents and Students, Today in musIQ Club we started with a review the C major scale ascending in the right hand. The hardest part is the thumbs tuck, fingering is 123 (tuck the thumb under)12345. This week we added the Left Hand descending C major Scale. It starts with the left hand thumb on C and [...]

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Hello Parents, Today in MusIQ Club we started with a review of finger numbers. We tried playing some finger combinations on our knees, we tried the first part of a piece by Beethoven! 3345 that’s how Ode to joy starts out then it goes 5432. Next the kids who have done MusIQ Club before got to be student [...]

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Hello Parents and Students, Today in musIQ Club we started with a review the C major scale ascending in the right hand. The hardest part is the thumbs tuck, fingering is 123 (tuck the thumb under)12345. Have your child show you at home! At the Keyboards we fiunally got to try out some new pieces, they [...]

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Hello Parents, Today in MusIQ Club we started with a review of finger numbers, we learned in piano each hand has fingers numbered 1 through 5 starting with the thumb as 1 and ending with the pinky as 5. We tried playing some finger combinations on our knees, starting simple like 111 then getting hard all the way to 1 [...]

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Hello Parents and Students, Today in musIQ Club we started with a review of rhythms and note values and then I introduced rests. Ech note value has a rest of the equivalent duration. I had the kids make up their own rhythms with a combination of notes and rests and we all tried clapping them. They made some [...]

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