Thursday, April 10, 2025 | Yellow Arrows Lessons

Lesson #13

Thank you for coming this week! I really appreciate your help in class! 

Lesson #15 (in 2 weeks) is STATION DAY! We will have different stations set up to play games and show off what the kids know. You will get to see just how much your child has learned this semester! It is a parent day and you won't want to miss it!

Celebrate Connection

A few ideas to bring playfulness to practice time!

• Play with a metronome set at 60, then 80.
• Play the RH part with your LH.
• Perform for a neighbor or friend. 

Don't forget our end-of-year SHOWCASE is coming up! Invite your family, extended family, neighbors or friends. Let's celebrate your child's accomplishments! Kids will wear their LPM t-shirts!

Our 1st and 2nd Year Showcase will be Friday, April 25th @ 5:30pm at the church at 2750 North 800 East. Please put it on your calendar! Sound Beginnings kids will be singing 2 songs at the start of the showcase. If you'd like to see the 3rd Year and Bridge Recital, it will begin @ 6:15pm.

Remember, this is a SHOWCASE... WE ARE NOT A PERFORMING GROUP! We're not expecting perfection. This is to show your friends and family what we've been learning this year and to give your child a chance to play for an audience.

I will text you the songs your student will be playing at the showcase. These are all songs and activities we've done before, but some of them have been awhile since we've gone over them. Please help your child have an AWESOME experience by being prepared! Memorizing their parts will help them be more confident. (Not required, but highly encouraged!) Everyone should have two songs to play. If you need to make a change, please let me know ASAP! If you don't understand what your child is supposed to actually do, please just ask! If the kids don't have an actual "part" for a song, they will be doing the actions or patting their laps the beat. I do not want to use a backtrack, so everyone will need to sing all the songs!

Although I don't know what order I'll do these in, here are the songs we'll be showcasing: Turtle Shells, Caterpillar Song, Hickory Dickory Dock, I Am Robin Hood, Tinga Layo, and How to Skip.

After 1st & 2nd year are done playing their songs, we'll sing "Don't Put Your Trash" with the audience and hand out certificates and sing our goodbye song. I'm going to keep it under 45 minutes. Then we'll start the 3rd Year Recital, which you are welcome and encouraged to watch.

This Old Man
How exciting to see the culmination of the last 2 years of chord study when writing the accompaniment for this song! We use our ears to hear what sounds correct, then use our staff knowledge to write the correct chord on the staff.
       
Scale Mix-Up
You can play scales anywhere on the keyboard! Begin on any C. Choose to play OUT & IN or IN & OUT. Play each hand separate with various bugs. So many possibilities!      

Dotted Quarter Eighth Note
A.K.A “Shoo-oot the”! This rhythm is tricky to count, though feeling and chanting the dotted quarter note (the bulls eye) and eighth note (arrow feather) with “shoo-oot the” will place each note exactly where it needs to be played in time. Pull out your own beat box to practice the various rhythms!

Have the practice blues set in at home? Jazz up practicing by adding some variety with practice time. Also open up the Green Turtle Shells Songbook and play all of the chords in the LH while playing the melody with the RH. Celebrate the wonderful progress your child has made throughout this year!

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 :)