
Thank you for attending a Sound Beginnings 3-week sample class that gave you a sneak peak into all six semesters of Sound Beginnings! Each semester explores all the elements of music: rhythm, pitch, harmony, form, dynamics and tone color, while teaching preschool skills and concepts. Students are encouraged to sing, play simple percussion instruments, listen, and move to classical music while learning concepts about print, numeracy, and other kindergarten concepts.
Attending Sound Beginnings with your young child will strengthen your relationship, develop the musician within, and prepare your child for success in kindergarten. That is truly a Sound Beginning!
So, what exactly did we learn over these 3 weeks?
Everybody Say Hello
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Keeping the beat, gross motor skills, in-tune singing, building routine
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ABC Song
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Learning the alphabet, pre-reading skills, in-tune singing, and feeling the beat
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Days of the Week
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Learning days of the week, playing a simple percussion instrument
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Four Seasons
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Learning seasons, in-tune singing
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Rhythmic Transition
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Keeping a steady beat, preparation for subdivision
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Seashells
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SOL and MI, body solfege, in-tune singing, feeling the beat, staff awareness
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Major Scale
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Major scale, relative pitch, solfege, hand signs, low-to-high, colors and letters
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Echo Edie
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Vocal play, pitch matching, in-tune singing, developing head voice
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Here is the Beehive
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Piano finger numbers, dexterity, counting to five
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Risseldy, Rosseldy
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Listening, concepts about print, gross motor skills, experiencing the beat
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Going to the Zoo
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Feeling the beat, playing a simple percussion instrument
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She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain
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Feeling the beat, playing a simple percussion instrument, sharing
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Jump Dance
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Classical form, theme/phrasing, enjoyment of classical music, listening, gross motor skills
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My Paddle/Silver Birch
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Feeling the beat, playing a simple percussion instrument
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Uno, Dos, Tres
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Feeling the beat, Spanish, playing a simple percussion instrument, gross motor skills
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My Little Rooster
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Vocal play, head register, in-tune singing
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Yankee Doodle
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Feeling the beat, playing a simple percussion instrument
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A Bushel and a Peck
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Feeling the beat, gross motor skills, parent-child bonding
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Everybody Say Goodbye
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Feeling the beat, building routine
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Wow! All that in just an hour and a half? Imagine what a 15-week class will do for you and your child!
Plato once said, “….music is a more potent instrument than any other for education…” Research has since proven that music trains the brain for higher forms of thinking. One study showed that after eight months of musical training,
3-year-olds were expert puzzle masters, scoring 80% higher than their playmates in spatial intelligence – the ability to visualize the world accurately. This skill later translates into mathematical conceptual and engineering skills!
Music makes smarter kids!
The 7 Foundational Elements of Sound Beginnings:
      
Bethany Harris - Certified Let’s Play Music & Sound Beginnings Teacher ♫
bethany@musikandme.com ♫ www.musikandme.com ♫ 435.770.7128
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