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Hello Parents! This was our 5th out of 9 weeks of the Spring MusIQ Club session. Grady did lesson and practice session 32 “The Grand Staff and Middle C” with Mr. Mozart. In this lesson he learned the parts of the grand staff and learned to play songs he already knew like Hot Cross Buns but this time reading [...]

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Hello Parents! This was our 4th out of 9 weeks of the Spring MusIQ Club session. Grady continued work in Vol. 2 of Children’s Music Journey this week. He did lesson and practice session 31 “More Grown up notes” with Mr. Mozart. In this lesson he reviewed all the note values learned so far (quarter, half, whole), and learned one [...]

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Hello Parents! This was our third week of our Spring MusIQ Club session. Grady completed Vol. 1 of Children’s Music Journey last week and this week he started Volume 2. He did lesson and practice session 30 “Review” with Mr. Dvorak. In this lesson he reviewed all the note values learned so far, and used all 5 fingers of both [...]

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Hello Parents! This was our second week of our Spring MusIQ Club session. This session is 9 weeks long and there will be a recital the last class of the session. Grady did lesson and practice session 25 “Recital” with Mr. Villa-Lobos and practiced and then performed Mary had a Big Fat Sheep for left hand, Hot Cross Buns for [...]

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Hello Parents! This was our first week of our Spring MusIQ Club session. This session is 9 weeks long and there will be a recital the last class of the session. We were very happy to welcome Zhi Hao to our class! Grady did lesson and practice session 24 ” Review for Recital” with Mr. Villa-Lobos and worked on [...]

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Hello Parents! This was our 8th and final week of our MusIQ Club winter session. Next week, April 20th, is the beginning of the Spring session it will be 9 weeks. If you have not already done so please register online at http://www.musiqclub.com/register.php or call Joan at the office (405-4071) I am looking forward to our last [...]

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Hello Parents! This was our 7th week of MusIQ Club. P-2 Sophie M., Solveig, Martin, and Grady Sophie and Solveig did lesson 8- ”Double Notes” with Mr. Bach and learned how to coordinate their two hands two notes at the same time. We skipped Miss Melody and the practice session went on to do Lesson 9 - “Higher & Higher, Lower & Lower” with mr. [...]

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Hello Parents! This was our 6th week of MusIQ Club. P-2 Sophie M., Solveig, Martin, and Grady Sophie and Solveig did lesson 6- ”Holding Notes” with Mr. Beethoven and learned how to hold notes for more than one beat. We skipped Miss Melody and the practice session went on to do Lesson 7 - “More Holding Notes” as well so they are on track to complete their [...]

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Hello Parents! This was our 5th week of MusIQ Club. P-2 Sophie M., Solveig, Martin, and Grady Sophie and Solveig did lesson 4- ”Circle Notes” with Mr. Beethoven and reviewed rhythms from last week. They went on to learn about “circle notes”. This is where they replace the birds and whales they were reading up until now with a note head. [...]

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Hello Parents! This was week 4 of MusIQ Club. Since the class is now bigger I split the group into grades P-2 and grade 3-6 and we take turns on the computers and working on theory away from the computers. P-2 (Sophie M., Solveig, Martin, and Grady) Before our lessons we worked together on some theory. [...]

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Hello Parents! Welcome to week 3 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. Today, we welcomed two new students to our class Sophie M. and Solveig. Since the class is now bigger I decided to split [...]

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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. Today, Sophie, Thomas, Grady, Martin, and Autumn  were happy to welcome Josh and sam back to MusIQ club and our guest Logan. We [...]

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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 Sophie and Thomas back again for the second term of MusIQ Club and very happy to welcome Grady, Martin and Autumn [...]

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Hello Parents, We began our second last MusIQ Club of this session with some work on the grand staff. We found and wrote all our special landmark notes, then played the grand Staff flash card game to improve our note identification skills. Josh won this time with Thomas a very close second. Sam did pretty well to! Good [...]

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Hello Parents, We began this week with some work on the grand staff. We practiced drawing the treble and bass clefs and then finding a few important notes on the grand staff. We also talked about steps and skips and practiced writing notes on the staff that did one or the other. Nest we played [...]

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Hello Parents, We began this week with a game of grand staff flashcards.  In this game we practice our note reading skills. I saw a big improvement from the last time we played it! Great job everyone. At home you can ”train” to improve your skills using the grand staff note placement games in Piano Suite on the Theory [...]

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Hello Parents, We began this week with a game, girls VS boys identifying notes on the grand staff on flashcards. The boys won by a landslide, next week the girls will get a chance to redeem themselves! In the mean time use the grand staff note placement games in piano Suit theory thinker to learn, [...]

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Hello Parents, We started out with melody playbacks, this is where I call out three to five numbers and the kids play them back to me. This works on ensemble, fingering and ear- training. Today was not our best MusIQ CLub class, Thomas was not feeling well with a headache so spent the middle part [...]

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Hi Parents! We had a great MusIQ club this lunch hour. We covered whole, half and quarter notes and how they can be combined to make up a bar of 4 beats for pieces in 4/4 time signature. We played exercises for each type of note. And did  a hands on rhythm bulding game, where [...]

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Hello Students and Parents! Our first MusIQ Club class of the year!  This year we will be moving up from the Children’s Music Journey Software, ideal for grades P-2, and instead using the Piano Suite software, which is better geared for our Grades 3 and up! Parents, remember access to the software now comes included [...]

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