J. W. MacLeod Elementary School Fri. April 11 2.45-3.45pm

We had an excellent first class of the Spring term today.
Welcome Miguel, Erika and Jeremy!

Level 1:

• You learned how to play a C major scale, starting on middle C.
• Recognizing notes in the staff using the musical alphabet.
  
• Practice naming notes with this game: Note Trainer
  
• You learned how to play 'Old Grey Goose' and I gave Jeremy 'Pop goes the Weasel' for an extra challenge (Jeremy, you will be moved ahead to the level 3 class next week :)
• You learned about holding notes for their correct values. Check out this Note Value Chart.
• Finally, we played the grand staff note placement game, bongo boy and made up our own songs in the Improvisation room.

Level 3:

• We reviewed your tests: Note naming, note values, semitones/tones, sharps and flats.
• We reviewed the song 'Ode to Joy' - hands separately, than together.
• We played a game of Faceoff to help us learn about notes on leger lines. Middle C is an example of a leger line note - a note outside the 5 lines and/spaces of the grand staff.
• We learned a new song 'The baseball game'.
• Finally, we played some games in the CMJ software and made up songs in the Improvisation room.

Great work - I'll see you again next week.
Miguel and Jeremy, don't forget to bring a friend !