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Hello Everyone! Super job last Saturday! We had a great lesson, and I hope you’re now enjoying a fun March Break! Reminder that the next lesson will be on March 31st. Devon – Level 2B, Lesson 48 This week, you met up once more with Mr. Satie. Today you played through lots of songs written on the [...]
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Aoi/ Laila -Piano Suite Week 7 Aoi and Laila did GREAT today! They reviewed sharps, flats, and G major Scale. Also they learned the F Major scale and learned a new piece today called “Lightly Row”. Laila was a little loud and had some trouble concentrating. I had to ask her to be quiet quite a [...]
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We missed Quinn and Sydney today in class! But, welcomed Willem – a “transfer” student from lunchtime MusIQ Club. Great to have you, Willem! We started off class today with a fun game for everyone – working with some tapping and clapping rhythms. Eloisa did some great work today on lesson 11 with Mr. Joplin. [...]
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Hello Everyone Another great week in musIQ club has come and gone. So this past week was actually great because we got to go over the musical alphabet and how these notes are applied to the keyboard! We also went over hand position, and finger numbers. The key thing to remember is always have your [...]
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This week while we ate our lunches, we talked about the final worksheets in our workbooks, to be sure everyone was comfortable with the concepts taught this semester. We also reviewed which solo each student would be playing at our open house next week! I’m so excited! We had planned on doing one last lesson [...]
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We had a smaller class today, as Quinn and Sydney were both absent. But that was okay! Riley, Simon, Eloisa and I played the game “musical telephone,” practicing our rhythms a bit. Riley played his G major scale for me, both RH and LH and ascending and descending. Remember when ascending (going up) with your [...]
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Bonjour! Cette semaine nous avons révisé les durées de notes ensemble, les enfants ont joué les rythmes ensemble et écrit plusieurs au tableau. Après, les enfants ont pratiqué jouer les notes nommé sur leur claviers. Tous les élèves ont joué ‘Row, row, row your boat’ ensemble et puis nous avons travaillé individuellement sur les logiciels [...]
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Everyone did a super job today in class! Riley and I worked on his new scale, the G Major scale today, and he also started a new piece “Ah Vous Dirai Je Maman” (also Twinkle Twinkle Little Star). Keep working on that G Major scale, Riley and watch your F sharps! I’m looking forward to [...]
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Cette semaine, nous avons commencé avec la révision de numérations des doigts , main gauche et droits et le placement sur les touches des doigts sur le clavier (touchant les bouts des doigts, avec les doigts en position d’arche (comme il y a un orange dans nos mains). Dans notre ‘bande de piano’ (quand nous [...]
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Bonjour! Bienvenue à MusIQ Club! En bref, depuis le premier cours de 2012, les élevés ont travaillé la durée des notes, la lecture de notes sur la portée (surtout sur le clé de sol) et ils ont joué les chansons suivantes: ‘Old grey goose’, ‘Frère Jacques’, ‘Pop goes the weasel’, and ‘Row, row, row your [...]
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This week while we ate our lunches, we learned about Mr. Bach. One of the components of MusIQ Club is music history, and we learn about the composers who teach the Children’s Musical Journey lessons. Our 1A’s have Mr. Bach for a teacher for the next few weeks, so today we started with him. Also, [...]
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Great work today, everyone! It was great to see Quinn, Sydney and Adam again this week.Welcome officially to class! Since Riley arrived nice and quick, we had the opportunity at the beginning of class to review some scales: RH and LH, ascending and descending, as well as contrary motion. Remember when descending (going down) to [...]
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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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Hello everyone, and welcome to MusIQ, where each week we learn how to read music and play cool songs on the keyboard! Every week is a new adventure whether we are playing ‘high bird’ notes and ‘low whale’ notes with Mr.Beethoven, listening to jazz with Mr.Joplin, going over the musical alphabet with Mr.Bach, practicing your [...]
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Great work this week Portage View! Down By the Bay was a hit! What great singing voices you have. Level 1A’s (Ella and Olivia) Today we talked about high sounds and low sounds (pitch) and short sounds and long sounds (rhythm). We reviewed how to find the C’s on our keyboards. If you’re not sure [...]
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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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Hi Everyone! Everyone worked very hard this week, working towards the end of their levels and also beginning to learn a new group piece ‘Oh Christmas Tree!” Good job! Next week will be the last session for this term. Mums and Dads are invited to come and watch from 10:40 to see how well the [...]
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Bonjour, (English follows) Aujourd’hui nous avons commencé avec ‘Ode à la joie’. Ensuite, nous avons joué les notes sur le clavier de notre feuille des notes de repère sur la grande portée. Beaux efforts, tout le monde! Nous avons ensuite fait notre gamme de Do majeur tous ensemble ascendant et descendant ! Super travail! Puis, [...]
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Level 1A We began class by reviewing our finger numbers. We number our fingers 1-5 beginning with our thumb and ending with our pinky. We discussed proper hand positioning as well. Your hand should be placed with your thumb on middle C and one finger on each of the adjacent white keys. Curve your fingers [...]
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Bonjour, (English follows) Aujourd’hui nous avons commencé avec l’apprentissage de la durée des notes—ronde, blanche, noire, croche par des mouvements, marcher, sauter, et frapper les mains. Ensuite, nous avons fait une revue des notes de repère sur la grande portée, écrite sur papier. Nous avons ensuite écouté un chanson de préparer pour notre petit concerte [...]
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