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Pink Piggies #14

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | Pink Piggies Lessons

Lesson #14


Next week is instrument day! We would love to have several people share an instrument or vocal talent! Of course, performing is optional, but we would enjoy hearing from you, your child, or another family member or friend. They can play an instrument (one of our semester instruments would be amazing!) or sing a solo (a song from this semester would be fabulous!). We welcome any and all performers! If your child wants to bring a homemade instrument, that's fine too! Each family will have a turn to share something. Please let me know what you will be sharing (and please let me know if you have any questions).


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.



Do you have a favorite instrument we listened to this semester? It’s likely that you and your student prefer one instrument to another. Exposure to various instruments allows your child develop a ‘taste’ for a particular sound that may turn into a desire to study a specific instrument. By listening to a solo instrument your child is learning about it’s timbre and tones. Timbre (pronounced "tam-ber") is the unique and distinctive sound that belongs to a specific instrument and distinguishes it from any other instrument. Tone refers to the quality and frequency of a sound as compared to itself; the difference in frequencies of low sounds (“bass”) and high sounds (“treble”).


Optional home fun activity: Do the Instrument Day activity on page 18
           
(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 the Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks!


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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:
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Research has shown that singing improves reading. Our classes prepare children for kindergarten by exploring concepts and skills such as name recognition, alphabet and phonetic awareness, counting, identifying colors, rhyming, telling time, and sequencing.

Have a musical day!         
-Ms. Bethany :)email_signature.gif

Pink Piggies #13

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!


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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:
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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 :)email_signature.gif

Pink Piggies #12

Wednesday, March 26, 2025 | Pink Piggies Lessons

Lesson #12


No class next week because it’s spring break! Final tuition is due when we come back in 2 weeks.


Lesson 15 will be an "Instrument Day"! This class gives families a chance to share an instrument. Of course, performing is optional and you are welcome to just listen, but we would enjoy hearing from you, your child, or another family member or friend who plays an instrument. We welcome any and all performers! Let me know if you have any questions.


Next week we'll sing these songs in class:

  • Ten Little Pennies
  • Name the Instruments
  • Grandma's Glasses
  • Doggie, Doggie, Where's Your Bone?
  • Take Me Out to the Ballgame
  • Bow Wow Wow
  • To Market
  • The Happy Farmer
  • My Little Rooster
  • Uno, Dos, Tres
  • De Colores



Two of the songs we sing this semester, Picaflor and Hey! Hey! Look at Me!, have only two pitches, SOL and MI. A third song, Doggie, Doggie, Where’s Your Bone?, adds LA for a total of only three pitches. This is because the SOL-MI interval is the easiest interval for the child to learn to recognize, imitate, and sing in tune, therefore allowing children to have successful singing experiences. We also use these songs to expose children to the musical staff and pitch relationships.


Optional home fun activity: Make the doggie and bone puppets on page 29
          
(Remember, these activities are optional but can be a great bonding experience to do with your child during the week.)  


Here's a fun video of "Grandma's Glasses" for you!


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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:
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Our classes teach intelligent listening and understanding of classical form in a fun and interactive way. Each semester we study the timbre (tam'-ber) of various instruments and our 'smart moves' dances involve the whole body in an enjoyable, classical music experience.

Have a musical day!        
-Ms. Bethany :)email_signature.gif

Pink Piggies #11

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 childrentypically 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!


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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:
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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 :)email_signature.gif

Pink Piggies #10

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 | Pink Piggies Lessons

Lesson #10


It’s hard to believe but we are just 5 classes away from the end of the semester. If you are ready for even more fun, you can register for the next round of musical adventure--White Horses! Remember, if you register by March 25th, you will get 5 entries in the drawings for Spirit Month! You can find more information on my web site: www.musikandme.com  Please let me know if you have any questions!


Next week we'll sing these songs in class:

  • Ten Little Pennies
  • Doggie, Doggie, Where's Your Bone?
  • Name the Instruments (maracas, Baritone, Piccolo, Xylophone, Ukulele)
  • Grandma's Glasses
  • Take Me Out to the Ballgame
  • Polly Wolly Doodle
  • The Happy Farmer
  • My Little Rooster
  • Count Your Blessings


I still have a few 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! 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! I have attached the worksheet again, if you need another copy. 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.



Learning music in a group setting has many advantages. Sound Beginnings classes naturally encourage participation and exploration in ways a private setting does not. Groups provide opportunities for repetition that is fun and engaging, expose children to teamwork and collaboration, and allow children to meet and learn from a peer group. Besides all of that, making music with others is just plain fun!


Optional home fun activity: Practice counting pennies in the piggy bank on page 23
           
(Remember, these activities are optional but can be a great bonding experience to do with your child during the week.)  


What do you think of our new dance song "The Happy Farmer"? Watch this video to see our song being played by real instruments!


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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:
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In class we experience steady beat and imitate rhythmic patterns with our voices, bodies, and through hands-on use of instruments. We incorporate Eurythmics, which is movement-based rhythm training that is perfect for toddlers!    

Have a musical day!         
-Ms. Bethany :)email_signature.gif