J. W. MacLeod Elementary School Fri. April 25 2.45-3.45pm

Great work today. I'm happy with the progress we're making in this class.

Level 1 (Miguel and Erika):

• Warmed up with C major scales, hands separately.
• Practiced the songs Old Grey Goose and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
  
• Practiced note naming in the Grand Staff note placement game.
• Watched the video on intervals in the Theory Thinker. (An interval is the distance between two notes.)
  
• Played a game of Interval Face off with the whole class.
• Played games and improvised some new songs in the Children's Music Journey software.

Level 3 (Jeremey, Anthony, Victoria, Hannah, Gabriel, Chloe and Rose):

• C Chromatic scales. C, F and G pentatonic scales.
• We did a theory sheet to review scale degrees and the pattern of notes for major and pentatonic scales.
• Practiced 'Ode to Joy', 'The Baseball game' and learned the new song 'Ten Little Indians'. Hands separately then together.
• Played some exercises reviewing accidentals (sharps and flats) in the Theory Thinker .
  
• Reviewed Intervals and played interval Face off with the whole class.
• Improvisation in the CMJ software, using the C, F and G pentatonic scale.
  

Practice your songs at home if you have the Piano Suite software - if not, please try sight reading any music books you may have at home, and review your scales.

Thanks everyone. See you next week.