Thursday, September 19, 2024 | Green Turtle Shells Lessons

Lesson #4

Next week parents attend and tuition is due for those of you paying monthly! You can scan the QR code to the right in your banking app to pay via Zelle (or just use my phone number).

When you come next week, you can make class especially great by arriving a few minutes early to get your child settled at the keyboard, and throughout class encourage your child, praise them for the wonderful progress their little hands have made (hugs, DO bonks, high 5's, etc.), participate in all of the activities, and HAVE FUN!!!

Celebrate Connection  

A few ideas to bring playfulness to practice time!

• Roll one die (dice) and play Kit Kat Keyboard or Old Paint that many times
• Sing along while you play Old Paint in a British or Australian (like Bluey!) accent
• Run across the room and give your Mom or Dad a hug or a high five (or hip bump) after you finish each song 

White Keys 
This week we reviewed anchor notes C & F in class with the 2nd verse of Kit Kat Keyboard. Play a quick game of “Show Me a _______” (LOW F, HIGH C or a MIDDLE C, etc.). This will help cement these white anchor notes as well as review keyboard geography!

Red Chord
Do you want to build a snowman? This year, a red chord will always be stacked up nice and neat like a snowman with two stacks of 3rds. Enjoy drawing rounded snowmen for the theory this week!

Old Paint
Now that we know how to read and play a red chord we get to play our favorite Old Paint! When you sing together exaggerate that down beat: good BYE, old PAINT, I'm LEAV-ing Chey-ENNE. Mix it up singing in a cowboy voice, an opera voice, in a video for grandma! SING ALONG as your child accompanies you both feeling the steady beat and hearing beautiful harmonies all at once!

Our first puppet show this year has been renamed “Spring Bees” for the sake of Let's Play Music's story line. However, its real name is "Spring" and is from a set of four violin concertos called, The Four Seasons composed by Antonio Vivaldi. What is your child’s favorite character? Can they hear the loud (forte) and soft (piano) within the themes? Which themes are major and which ones are minor? Have you made the puppets yet? Please let me know if you have any questions about how to download it. The kids LOVE being able to do the puppet shows at home so they can be ALL the characters!

Here is a link to all the skills videos as well as the link to be able to purchase a class video to make up for a missed class. (tap or scan)

Have a musical day!
-Ms. Bethany :)