Lesson #8

Next week is PARENT WEEK 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).

The children will be coloring in their piano books! It's completely acceptable and we will color more in class!      
       
Celebrate Connection      
A few ideas to bring playfulness to practice time!

• Play the first measure of a song, *piano* and the next measure *forte*, the next measure *piano*, and the next, *forte*, etc.
• Video record (or voice record) a song and send it to your LPM teacher (or Grandparent!).
• Have parent sing words while child plays.

Primary Chords Song
Do you want to build more snowmen? Combinations of intervals build chords. We will use ‘snowmen’ to teach the 3 common shapes of chords throughout the 2nd year of Let’s Play Music.
       
A ROUND snowman shape represents the Red Chord built with two stacks of 3rds. (The SNOWMAN lives at HOME)
A TOP-HEAVY shape represents the Blue Chord built with a 4th on the bottom and a 3rd on the top. (The blue kite flies UP HIGH in the blue sky.)
A BOTTOM-HEAVY shape represents the YELLOW Chord built with a 3rd on the bottom and a 4th on the top. (The yellow sand we're collecting on the GROUND is HEAVY.)

We can find melodic patterns in many songs! You can click and print this melodic pattern card and have your child point to the corresponding melodic pattern they hear in the following songs.

Sol-Fa-Mi-Re-Do: Dings in Firetruck, end of Row, Row, Row Your Boat, end of Bunny's Birdhouse
       
Mi-Re-Do: Solfege Seafriends: end of octopus line, end of Farmer in the Dell, end of Sally Go Round the Sun
       
Sol-Sol-Do: Solfege Seafriends: end of whale line
       
Sol-La-Ti-Do: Say, Say Oh Playmate: ending

For additional fun, you can go to your Student Portal and download the melodic pattern flashcards. You and your child will become pros at hearing, singing, signing, AND playing them! Here are the patterns in some of the songs we are learning this semester.

I have added the SFMRD pattern cards to the student download portal. It's called "SFMRD_addition". You can add those to your first set of cards from last year.

If you didn't downloaded those yet, just download the one called "5_melodic_patterns_game". It will have all 5 melodic patterns in one file.

Play "Memory" with them. ANY cards that have the same pattern are considered a match (see photo for examples of matching cards). Have your child sing and/or sign each pattern as the cards are turned over, even if it's your turn! Or just mix them around face-up and see how quickly you can pair them with each other. Then do it again and see if you can beat your time!