Welcome back from our holiday break! We're going to have so much fun in our Blue Bugs semester! Here are some of the fun new things we did today:
We learned a new cadence pattern today, So-La-Ti-Do. Learning cadence patterns help us hear the ending patterns in music. They bring us back to "home." Learning to recognize patterns is essential in music training as we train the ear and learn skills that will aid us in reading and playing music.
I'm impressed with how well the students are remembering their solfeg syllables and hand signs and how well they played their major scales up and down on their bells. We learned the actions to our Clickety Clack song, learned how to skip, and sang and played a sad, slow song about our old horse "Paint."
We also introduced our Bug Rhythm song which will help us with rhythmic notation and subdiving a beat. These cool rhythm bugs are going to teach us a lot!
Last, but not least, we learned a new puppet show today! Triumphant March is a song from the opera "Aida" by Giuseppe Verdi. We have so much fun performing our puppet shows while learning to listen intellegently to classical music and recognizing classical form.
Hooray for Blue Bugs!
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