Jackson Nelson’s mom, Ms. Tera, came back to visit our class one last time to teach music through play. Here are some of the fun things they did on Monday:
- They sang the solfeggio words and hand signs for Mi-Re-Do, Sol-Sol-Do, and Sol-La-Ti-Do. They were reminded what the musical notation looks like for these patterns on the staff.
- We sang DO is home, Chords in Pieces: Red (Do-Mi-Sol), Blue (Do-Fa-La), and Yellow (Ti-Re-Sol), and sang our Primary Chord Song.
- We reviewed and learned some songs that have our melodic patterns hidden in them: 3 Blind Mice, A Hunting We Will Go, and Johnny Get Your Haircut.
- We learned what notes can do on a staff through some fun songs: Taking Baby Steps (notes going from a space to the next line or from a line back to a space), How to Skip (from a line to the next line or from a space to the next space – that’s a skip!), Dinosaur Song (skips and baby steps), and A Frog Went a-Hoppin’ (note that are leaps)
- We reviewed the musical BUGS with their matching musical notes. 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!
- We sang a song that we all know that has both musical bugs and a melodic pattern hidden it – B-I-N-G-O (Bee-tle But-ter-fly) And…Bing-Sol-La-Ti-Do-Do!
- Echo Ed (my singing snake puppet) joined us again having us echo some rhythmic patterns and singing solfeggio too.
- To end their fun, they did some classical music listening through a puppet show! They picked their favorite puppet show the Fox Hunt for us to do.
Ms. Tera wanted to thank you for the opportunity to teach music to your children. She enjoyed every minute of it!