Music Adventures with Paige Moore LPM3: Purple Magic #2

NEED TO KNOW

Purple Magic #2: Your Purple Magicians are so much fun!

PRACTICE BEADS: Your student's practice beads are clipped into their workbooks. You can send the empty baggies back and I'll reuse them (but no worries if I don't get them back! I'm definitely not keeping track!). If you need a reminder of how to "tie on" the beads, check out this video. As always, if your students want to use the beads in a different project, that's fine! If they want to display them on their LPM bags, they can use the plastic landyard-y strings. Let me know if you didn't get strings and need some!

FLASHCARDS: The flashcards have arrived, and I had each student put them in their bags.

CDs: For those who requested one, there is also a CD in your student's bag.

DICTATION CHALLENGE: This week we had our first day of "dictation," a new challenge for our 3rd Year students. As always, we start slowly. We drew quarter notes, or "bugs," as we've known them for the past two years. These are on page 1 of your student's songbook, and they did a great job!

MISSING CLASSES: Life happens and sometimes you miss class. It's no biggie! There is a lot of repetition built into the classes and your student will be just fine. But if you miss a class (or a bunch of classes) for whatever reason and want to do a makeup, you can purchase access to those classes produced for the LPM Online program. You can read more about that at this link. I will suggest using these if you end up missing three or more classes in a row, but overall they're only if you want more exposure. But I do want you to be aware of the option!

GOOD TO KNOW

CATERPILLAR COUSINS (pg 7): Our favorite caterpillar is BACK! This version of the song is in parallel motion, rather than the easier contrary motion we did in Yellow Arrows. It will require more brainwork. This week's practice outline specifies that they do it hands separately, which will solidify the patterns in each hand. There are some Magician Musicians who are itching to put it hands together! I told them they could work on that at home after they played it hands separately.

BOUNCE & ROLL (pg 15): "Bounce and Roll" highlights legato (smooth) and staccato (choppy). This is the first week of this semester that we've used the songbook as a workbook. If you check your child's book, you'll see that they have a "legato line" underneath the phrases in the first two lines of the song. In class, we talked about dipping our ball into paint and having it roll across the page creating the legato line. Then on the bouncing part, we talked about what it would look like to dip the paint and bounce it on each note, and we ended up with "staccato dots" underneath the notes in the second two lines. They're so smart! Here's what it should look like.