BLT Elementary School Wed. May 7 2.30-3.30pm

We had a great class. We had Kyheem Bowden join us this week. Welcome to MusIQ Club.
We were missing Cameron, Abbey, Connor and Jacob today though.
Don't forget next Wednesday!

LEVEL 1A (Kyheem):

• Completed Lesson 1 and 2 with Mr. Beethoven.
• Learned about high 'bird' notes and low 'whale' notes. Remember, right hand plays high, left hand plays low.
• Learned where to find Middle C. Either hand can play middle C.
• Practiced songs with high, low and middle C notes, keeping a steady beat and curved finger hand position.
• Played games and improvised/recorded some tunes.

LEVEL 1B (Billy):

• Completed Lesson 18 and a little bit of lesson 19 with Miss Mendelssohn.
• Reviewed stepping and skipping in Middle C position. (Thumbs share middle C.)
• Played songs, including Mary had a little lamb and Mary had a big fat sheep.
  
• Talked about the musical alphabet and practiced naming notes backwards.
• Played games and improvised/recorded some tunes.

LEVEL 2 (Haylea):

• Completed Lesson 32 and 33 with Mr. Mozart.
• Began learning how to play in the grand staff. Your right hand plays the top staff and left hand plays the bottom staff. Remember where middle C is found on the grand staff. It has it's own line underneath the top staff.
• Learned how notes moving by step will follow the pattern, line-space-line-space-etc.
• Practiced drawing quarter, half and whole notes and line notes/space notes.
• Played games and improvised some tunes.
  

We also played a game of keyboard race to help us remember our musical alphabet. Haylea won, and we all had a lot of fun. We also practiced rhythm playbacks with the hand drum. Kyheem is already able to clap rhythms like a pro after only 1 lesson.

Excellent work.