Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Brown Teddy Bears Lessons

Lesson #5

Have you found your child replicating a class activity or song at home? Wonderful! Reinforce his/her learning by participating in the activity together (sing along, play the game, etc.) These songs and games your child is learning in class will open up additional teaching and bonding opportunities at home.

Next week we'll sing these in class:

• The Four Seasons
• Here is the Beehive
• Snowman
• Echo Edie
• Major Scale
• Little Boy Blue
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
• Rocky Mountain
• Mulberry Bush
• Grizzly Bear
• Flight of the Bumblebee
• Lavender's Blue

The younger the child, the smaller the vocal range is for singing. Echo Edie helps students hear, experience, and explore high sounds in their “head voice” as opposed to their natural, speaking “chest voice” . Through vocal play, Echo Edie will help to extend your child's vocal range, learn to sing in tune, match pitch, feel the beat, and repeat rhythms.

By echoing Edie with high voices, your children are discovering their head voice (or upper vocal range), which is so important for learning to sing in tune!

Life skills, such as doing chores around the house, or taking care of our bodies, are an important part of preschool education. Singing about these routines makes them more fun.

Optional home fun activity: Cut out the Little Boy Blue cards on page 27 in your workbook    
(Remember, these activities are optional but can be a great bonding experience to do with your child during the week.)  

Here's a video of our new class story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? read aloud!

Sound Beginnings is education through musical play! It prepares children for success in Kindergarten and Let’s Play Music. Sound beginnings provides research-based elements that stimulate growth in the areas particularly crucial to the development of the young child. These elements make up the foundation of the Sound Beginnings curriculum.  Here is just one:
	Our classes teach intelligent listening and understanding of classical form in a fun and interactive way. Each semester we study the timbre (tam'-ber) of various instruments and our 'smart moves' dances involve the whole body in an enjoyable, classical music experience.

Have a musical day!  
-Ms. Bethany :)