Westmount Elementary School Tues May 13 12.15-1.15pm

Great work today. It was nice to have Hannah back with us in MusIQ Club.

LEVEL 1 (Sean, Ryan, Iris and Hannah):

• Completed lesson 22 with Mr. Villa-Lobos.
• Discussed Mr. Villa-Lobos' life. Can you remember where he is from? (Brazil.) What instruments did he play? (the piano, and guitar.) Anything else? (composed music for South America, speaks Portuguese, etc.)
• Practiced songs with both hands in middle C position. Make sure to count the correct number of beats for your long notes and keep a good hand position!
• Practiced 4-beat rhythms and learned the game Falling Leaves.
• Improvised in the improvisation room.

LEVEL 2 (Aoiffe, Josie, Morgan, Lidya and Sophie):

• Completed lesson 34 with Mr. Mozart.
• You are learning how to read music on the Grand Staff. We discussed 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, playing the Treble Clef (upper 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.