BLT Elementary School Thurs. April 17 2.30-3.30pm

We had a good class today.

LEVEL 1 (Dylan, Rama and Taylor):

• Warmed up with C major scales. Right hand and Left hand separately.
• Practiced Old Grey Goose.
• Practiced Note Naming. You should try sightreading music at home, to improve the rate at which you recognize notes and play them on the keyboard.
  
• Practiced Pop Goes The Weasel. Make sure to count your rest values and keep three beats in a bar. Taylor, you were quite good with this.
  
• Rama learned how to play On Top of Old Smokey. Good work.
• Worked on three note playbacks, and 4-beat rhythm playbacks.

LEVEL 2 (Savannah, Jazlyn and Krista):

• Reviewed Note Naming, Note Values, Intervals, and Terms (Legato, Staccato, Piano, Forte)
  
• Completed the written part of your Level 2 test. You will do the performance part of you test next week.
• Make sure you know the songs: Old Grey Goose, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Pop Goes the Weasel, On Top of Old Smokey and Get up for next week! You will be asked to perform one of these songs for your grade.

LEVEL 3 (Grace, Veronica and Kara):

• Reviewed Scales (Major and Pentatonic), Note Values, Tones and Semi-tones, and Terms (Allegro, Roman Numerals, Legato, Staccato, Piano, Forte, etc.)
• Completed the written part of your Level 3 test. You will do the performance part of you test next week.
• Make sure you know the songs: Let it Be, Happy Birthday and Clementine for next week. You will be asked to perform one of these songs for your grade.

Finally we played a game of Faceoff with the whole class, to help us with naming notes.
The team on my Right side won, but everyone did an amazing job. I'm very happy with the progress everyone is making.

I let you play games in the Children's Music Journey software for the last five minutes of class. Some of you chose to record your own songs in the Improvisation Room.
Well done!