Wednesday, April 9, 2025 | Pink Piggies Lessons

Lesson #13

As we approach the end of the semester, I just wanted to remind you that you can keep the fun going at home until our next class. Continue to use this semester’s materials (album, workbook, instrument activities you learned). Your child will think you are just having fun, but you will actually be strengthening his newly acquired musical skills!

Instrument Day will be in 2 weeks and I want each family to bring an instrument to share with the class. We'll get to see several real instruments and even get to play a few!

Next week we'll sing these songs in class:

• Let's Count Our Money
• Name the Instruments
• Grandma's Glasses
• De Colores
• Palo Palo
• Bow Wow Wow
• My Little Rooster
• March of the Toreadors
• Hush Little Baby

Our Sound Beginnings/Let's Play Music 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. Sound Beginnings students will wear Sound Beginnings t-shirts. If you don't already have one, you'll get one if you are going to be at the showcase! If you'd like to see the 3rd Year and Bridge Recital, it will begin @ 6:15pm.

Little brains are wired for repetition. Your child may have found a favorite activity they insist on repeating again and again. They probably think they are just having fun, but this innate desire for repetition is really their brain’s way of helping them process and master skills. When engaged in an activity, the brain and body send electrical signals back and forth along the nerve fibres The more practice the nervous system has at receiving and sending messages, the more efficiently it operates and the more effectively a child acquires a skill. So, as you keep singing and moving to the music, you are watching the growth of a musician!

Optional home fun activity: Color ‘The Happy Farmer’ coloring page on page 17           
(Remember, these activities are optional but can be a great bonding experience to do with your child during the week.)  

Check out this fun video of 5 dogs and 5 bones!

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: Peek into a Sound Beginnings class and you will see skipping, crawling, dancing, and jumping! Full body movement builds large muscle strength, hand-eye coordination, aids brain-hemisphere function, and develops balance in young children.

Have a musical day!         
-Ms. Bethany :)