Westmount Elementary School Tues May 6 12.15-1.15pm

Nice to see you again after the two week break. We had a good class today.

LEVEL 1 (Iris, Ryan and Sean):

• Completed lesson 21 and a little bit of lesson 22 with Mr. Villa-Lobos.
• Reviewed Middle C position and notes moving by step. Make sure both your thumbs are on middle C and you are using all five fingers in order when you play.
• Learned some new songs and some new games. Make sure you hold down your notes for the correct number of beats; quarter, half and whole.
  
• Talked about line notes and space notes and the musical alphabet, and drew some examples on the board.
  
• Practiced rhythms playbacks with the hand drum and improvised some tunes in the CMJ vol. 1 software.

LEVEL 2 (Sophia, Morgan, Aoiffe, Josie, Lidya and Cameron)

• Completed lesson 33 and a little bit of lesson 34 with Mr. Mozart.
• Reviewed the grand staff: Right hand plays high notes in the upper staff, left hand plays low notes in the lower staff. We are trying to memorize where the notes (C, D, E, F, G, A, B) are found on the staff. Remember that the notes go in order of the musical alphabet from bottom to top. If you know where middle C is, you can figure out any other note.
  
• Learned some new songs and the new game Guitar Girl. Very good note reading.
• Practiced drawing quarter, half and whole notes, as well as the Treble Clef.
• Ear training with 4-beat rhythms and improvised tunes in the CMJ vol. 2 software.

For homework you can review the lessons we completed this week and practice 4 or 5 note playback exercises with your Mom or Dad. Have them call out a series of four letters, or four numbers and you play them back. You should try this with your right and then your left hand in middle C position, keeping a steady beat.

Have fun and see you next time.