Fleming Tower Elementary School Mon. May 12 2.15-3.15pm

Well done everyone. It was nice to have Brianna back with us today, although Aly was sick - get well soon!

LEVEL 1 (Benjamine and Ryan):

• Completed lesson 6 and part of lesson 7 with Mr. Bach.
• Discussed Mr. Bach's life. Can you remember what country he is from? (Germany.) What instruments did he play? (the piano, violin and organ.) Anything else? (22 children, wears a funny wig, composed music for the church.)
• Practiced songs with holding notes. Make sure to count the correct number of beats for the holding notes, and keep a good hand position!
• Practiced 4-beat rhythms and learned a new game - Hold the Train.
• Improvised in the improvisation room.

LEVEL 2 (Lauren, Jessica, Jacqueline and Emma):

• Completed lesson 18 with Miss Mendelssohn.
• Discussed stepping and skipping in Middle C position. That means both thumbs share middle C with all the other fingers aligned on the neighbor keys.
• Practiced our stepping and skipping songs. Make sure to keep a steay beat and your fingers curved and wrists up!
• Practiced 4-beat rhythms and played some ear training games.
• Improvised and recorded some tunes.

LEVEL 3 (Noah, Jared, Reece, Brianna and Jansyn):

• Completed lesson 31 with Mr. Mozart.
• You are now learning how to read music on the Staff. You learned where middle C is found on the staff, and how to read by step and skip based on the middle C position, using line notes and space notes.
• Practiced some easy songs with the right hand. Try to remember where the notes on your keyboard fall on the Treble Clef staff.
  
• Practiced drawing half notes, quarter notes and whole notes.
• Improvised in the improvisation room.

Finally, we played a drum game where everyone made up 4-beat rhythms for their friends in the class. Please choose a song to memorize and practice at home. We will have a recital in about one month's time where parents can come and check out what we've been learning and how far we've come over the past few terms. If you have the CMJ software at home, review your lesson and choose a song you would like to perform. If not, that is ok and we will choose a song in class next week to memorize and play at the recital.

Have a good week!