Wednesday, March 19, 2025 | Pink Piggies Lessons

Lesson #11

Have you enjoyed the singable books we have shared in class this semester? Your local library is likely to have a few. (Also, Let's Play Music has printed several of their own that you can purchase!) Even if books are not ‘singable’, they are still a great way to connect with your child at home. Fun Fact: if you spend just 20 minutes per day reading with your child, during the course of the year you will have accumulated over 120 hours of quality time with him.

Next week we'll sing these songs in class:

• Let's Count Our Money
• Doggie, Doggie, Where's Your Bone?
• Bow Wow Wow
• DO Pentatonic Scale
• Grandma's Glasses
• Take Me Out to the Ballgame
• The Happy Farmer
• To Market
• My Little Rooster
• Zoodeo
• De Colores

I still have openings in Sound Beginnings and my 1st Year Let's Play Music classes. I've also got an evening Sound Beginnings class for working parents! Register today and get the early bird special: no $20 registration fee! If you know of anyone who might be interested, I'm holding a free preview class Monday at March 24th @ 5:30 for LPM and 6:30 for SB. PLEASE share this link to any friends you think might be interested in music classes! 
https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/free-preview-classes-at-musik-me-studio-1756869 Also, I LOVE having current students at my preview classes. Please sign up if you are able to come to either or both of the classes. I can't do "make up" classes, but you can think of this as being a bonus class if you ever missed one... or even if you didn't!

Are you still working on your Spirit Month BINGO worksheets? I will have drawings for a MINI YOTO PLAYER, an mp3 player, egg shakers, cage bell set, tambourines, singable storybooks, CASH ($20, $10 & $5), and MORE! You can download the BINGO worksheet from your student portal if you need another one. They will be due on lesson #12, where you or your child get to decide which prizes you want to put your tickets toward! I'll do the drawing the following Friday.

Children are known to sing spontaneously because it is joyous, playful, personal, expressive, and creative. Their natural desire to imitate can help develop their singing voice, and even very young children can learn to match pitch and sing simple melodies correctly. Sound Beginnings’ activities are designed to foster the desire to sing and the repertoire purposefully falls within a comfortable singing range for children—typically the pitches from middle C to treble C (just like our tone bells!).

Optional home fun activity: Do the Grandma’s Glasses activity on page 21            
(Remember, these activities are optional but can be a great bonding experience to do with your child during the week.)  

Did you know that animals can "speak" in a different language also? Watch this video to learn the names of other farm animals and what they say in Spanish!

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:
	Little hands need to be strong in order to perform life and learning skills such as dressing oneself and writing. In class, students gain finger dexterity and hand strength as they participate in finger plays to favorite nursery rhymes and manipulate tactile props and instruments.

Have a musical day!          
-Ms. Bethany :)