Thursday, October 3, 2024 | Green Turtle Shells Lessons

Lesson #6

I have a personal goal for every student to master the skills taught this semester and parental support is the key to success! Completing their homework book activities is the best way to help them master these skills. Even if they only get it out once a week, that's still better than not at all. If you need to break it up into small chunks and do just a couple minutes of one activity and a different activity another day, that is totally fine. 

Celebrate Connection  
A few ideas to bring playfulness to practice time!

• Stand on one foot while your parent plays a song, then switch.
• Pretend the keys are hot for one song.
• Play "air piano" style by playing on the piano cover or with the keyboard off.

Bubble Hands

Playing along with the Bubble Hand song on the CD is the perfect opportunity to encourage your child to keep the bubble hand shape while they push down other fingers to play as well as reinforce finger numbers. Once they MASTER finger numbers in order, switch up the finger numbers in the 2nd verse. A fun way to extend this activity is to "write" the finger numbers on their fingers with marker OR “write” the finger numbers on the tops of the fingers on a latex glove which they wear while they play!

Turtle Shells

Speaking of finger numbers, your Turtle Shells discovered that intervals are played with specific finger numbers. A 2nd is played with fingers 1 & 2, a 3rd is played with 1 & 3, and a 4th is played with 1 & 4. Remember “Thumbs are ONES!” The bottom note of every interval is a middle C. It is the most important note because it has its VERY OWN line!!! 

Firetruck

Hurry, Hurry we learned to play a Sol-Fa-Mi-Re-Do! For practice play the song on the CD and let them 'dance' in their seat, then get in C-position and play the ding ding ding part. On each verse alternate between singing the solfege, the finger numbers, ding dings, and even "baby steps go-ing down."

Come on an adventure with Turtle Tom and Turtle Tim as they encounter the sounds of intervals!! (Totally worth looking at this!)

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 :)