Jackson Nelson’s mom, Ms. Tera, came back to visit our class to continue to help the kids discover music through play! Here some of the fun things they did:

• They reviewed some of the solfeggio words and hand signs for Mi-Re-Do and Sol-Sol-Do. They also learned a new one! Sol-La-Ti-Do. This cadence pattern was hidden in some of the songs she sang with them – Let’s Play Music, Johnny Get Your Haircut, V-A-L-E-N-T-I-N-E, and Rig-a-Jig, Jig. They even learned what the musical notation looks like for these patterns on the staff.
• More fun with solfeggio by singing Clickety-Clack, our fun train song where our actions turned into solfeggio hand signs!
• They learned that BUGS have their own rhythms that are fun to clap. Ask them to clap their bugs: Bug, Bug, But-ter-fly, But-ter-fly, Grass-hop-per, Grass-hop-per, Cat-er-pil-lar, Cat-er-pil-lar, Bee-tle, Bee-tle, SLUU-G!
• They learned a new song that used one of the 3 Primary Chords -the Red Chord (Do-Mi-Sol). Ask them to tell you about Old Paint.
• They did some classical music listening too through a puppet show! Ms. Tera gave each one of your children their own page of puppets to color and perform for you. Here’s a link to the music – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AssDQbaIP_I

Music is a lot fun, especially when you can learn all these great musical concepts through play!