Great class this week everyone.
We learned about rhythm today. Rhythm is when there are long sounds and short sounds in music, overtop of a steady beat.
There is a natural rhythm in language, when we talk. So we played a game making up sentences like "I like kitty cats" and "My sister eats cake".
The words with two syllables have short sounds and the words with only one have long sounds.
We practiced clapping lots of different sentences, and everyone seemed to understand after visiting Mr. Beethoven and Ms. Melody to reinforce the concepts.
We tried out the Princess Game, which was pretty hard for some students, but others picked it up right away.
Everyone can practice making up sentences and playing the rhythms on middle C on their keyboards at home.
I was very glad to see that everyone remembered their musical alphabet perfectly, and was able to find Middle C. Practice saying the alphabet backwards. We want to know our keys so well that we can name each of them quickly, without having to counting up and down.
We'll learn more about rhythm next time. Thanks for all your hard work :)
See you next week.
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