Today in MusIQ Club!

Here’s what we covered in week 3. Parents, please watch your email for a notice regarding the Carleton County Music Festival. It’s possible to enter your child in the festival under MusIQ Club if you wish to do so. There is also the possibility of doing group entries as well. David, Lauren, Cail, & Gabby: Today [...]

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Here’s what we covered in week 3. Parents, please watch your email for a notice regarding the Carleton County Music Festival. It’s possible to enter your child in the festival under MusIQ Club if you wish to do so. There is also the possibility of doing group entries as well. Hunter, Aidan, Tyler & (Lachlan [...]

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Welcome back for week 2. We covered a lot in class today. Please skip down to the part that pertains to your child. David, Lauren, Cail, Gabby: Today this group worked in CMJ 2, lesson 37. For set up instructions, please see the blog post from last week. The students completed the lesson with Ms. Beach [...]

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Welcome back for week 2. We covered a lot in class today. Please skip down to the part that pertains to your child. Aidan, Tyler, Lachlan & Hunter: Today this group worked in CMJ 1, lesson 12. For set up instructions, please see the blog post from last week. The students completed the lesson with Mr. [...]

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Here we go again, welcome back! It’s great to see familiar faces. I’ve got some new faces as well, and I’m looking forward to our next 8 weeks together. I’ll break up my post into 2 parts, so if you are returning, skip down. If you are new, read on. This blog is where you, [...]

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Here we go again! To those students who are returning, welcome back! It’s great to see familiar faces. I’m looking forward to our next 8 weeks together. This blog is where you, the parent, can read about what we are doing in MuisIQ club in order to help your child practice at home and keep [...]

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Thanks everyone for your support over the past 10 weeks. We had a fun presentation today and I’ve really enjoyed teaching this class. I hope you will continue with Musiq Club when we start up again in the new year, the week of January 9, 2012. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! Tracy

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Thanks everyone for your support over the past 10 weeks. We had a fun presentation today and I’ve really enjoyed teaching this class. I hope you will continue with Musiq Club when we start up again in the new year, the week of January 9, 2012. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! Tracy

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Here we are in week 9 of our program. We worked very hard today to prepare for our ‘open house’ presentation which will take place next week, Dec. 15, 2011 at SCES. Parents are invited to come to the school and sit in on the last 20 minutes of the program. If you are attending, [...]

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Here we are in week 9 of our program. We worked very hard today to prepare for our ‘open house’ presentation which will take place next week, Dec. 15, 2011 at WCES. Parents are invited to come to the school and sit in on the last 20 minutes of the program. If you are attending, [...]

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Week 8 already! Wow, time is really flying. Hard to believe that we will be finished in two more classes. For parents following this blog, there will be an ‘open house’ during part of the class in our week 10 final recital. Keep an eye out for your email invite. This means that you are [...]

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Week 8 already! Wow, time is really flying. Hard to believe that we will be finished in two more classes. For parents following this blog, there will be an ‘open house’ during part of the class in our week 10 final recital. Keep an eye out for your email invite. This means that you are [...]

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Only three classes remaining, here we are in week 7. Is your child practicing at home? If the answer is yes, then pat yourself on the back. This will help to guarantee success at the piano and in MusIQ Club. Today, we took a look at lesson 33 in the CMJ 2 software, so if you are [...]

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Only three classes remaining, here we are in week 7. Is your child practicing at home? If the answer is yes, then pat yourself on the back. This will help to guarantee success at the piano and in MusIQ Club. Today, we took a look at lesson 9 in the CMJ 1 software, so if you are following [...]

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Welcome back for week 6. It’s hard to believe we are more than halfway finished this program. Only 4 more lessons left before we break for Christmas. (At least as far as MusIQ Club is concerned!) Our focus in class has shifted from working with the software to more playing on the keyboards. We still [...]

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Welcome back for week 6. It’s hard to believe we are more than halfway finished this program. Only 4 more lessons left before we break for Christmas. (At least as far as MusIQ Club is concerned!) Our focus in class has shifted from working with the software to more playing on the keyboards. We still [...]

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We are at the half way point through our lessons now. This is a really nice group of students and I’m enjoying my time with them. Today in MusIQ Club we covered lesson 6 in the CMJ software, so if you are working at home to review, you can go into the settings and adjust [...]

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We are at the half way point through our lessons now. This is a really nice group of students and I’m enjoying my time with them. They are quite bright and they move through the material quickly. Today in MusIQ Club we covered lesson 30 in the CMJ 2 software, so if you are working [...]

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Things are steadily picking up speed for this fine group of students! Today we started in on lesson #4, and everyone in the class seems to be grasping the concepts without any trouble. Most of the students now know their finger numbers by heart, and have their music alphabet memorized, forward and backwards. Backwards is [...]

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In today’s class we covered a lot of material. Students are starting to make a transition from symbols to represent sound (bird notes, whale notes, and the boat man) to reading grown-up notes. High notes still look high on the screen, low notes still look low on the screen, and middle C is no longer a [...]

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