Blue Bugs Lesson 1

What a fun lesson we had! Thanks parents for coming. The kids love it when you are here! Next week only students, puppets, and homework come to class.

Here are a few classroom reminders…

1. Be on time: If a student is consistently late, they will miss important exercises that will affect their musical training. (The key word is consistent, we are all human with stuff that happens, so just try your very best.)

2. Add your energy to class: Make sure you are participating right alongside your child. I can’t do it all by myself. Well, maybe I could, but it’s much more fun if everyone is having fun with me!

If you haven’t gotten the LPM app yet, search for it on the app store and get it downloaded. Just log in with the EXACT same credentials you created when you registered your student. Be careful with capitals in your user name as that is a common reason people can’t log in. If you still can’t log in, email the office at [email protected].

New Melodic Pattern

Today we learned ‘sol la ti do’ hand signs and notated them on the staff! We’ll be hearing, singing and signing this pattern a lot now. Remember singing our cadence patterns over and over again help us to sing in tune and aurally internalize the diatonic scale.

New Songs

Many new songs were introduced today. Within the next few weeks we’ll be learning complex skills and concepts from these songs. Things like: identifying rhythms and how to notate them, subdividing a beat, harmony using a round, recognizing a broken chord, playing and reading skips on the staff, and SO much more!

Our new songs from today included: Clickety, Clickety Clack, Can’t Bug Me, Old Paint, Rig-a-Jig-Jig, Johnny’s Haircut, How to Skip, and our new puppet show, Triumphant March. Every activity has a music lesson hidden inside and the exciting part is your student just thinks we are just PLAYING!! It’s magical!

Have fun with reading this blog post on Old Paint! Also, we’ve added the coloring book for our Triumphant March. Enjoy coloring together!

For my convenience, I have preloaded content for the whole semester. I will update each future post with specific time-sensitive info before I send the link each week. If you choose to read ahead you might see details that don’t apply to your child’s class. For this reason I do not recommend reading ahead. Thank you!