Purple Magic #3

NEED TO KNOW

Purple Magic #3: You have great kids! Thanks for sharing them with me!

HOMEWORK HELP: The Let's Play Music company has made a new "Homework Booklet Answer Key" page. Check it out any time you wonder about the homework assignment or just want to make sure you're doing it right! You can get there by scanning the QR code on the back of the homework booklet. That will take you to a page with Skills Videos, and at the very top it has a few links: one to purchase access to full class videos, and another to access theory answer keys. Click on the "1st Year" link and you're there!

ACCIDENTALS: Full disclosure: I completely forgot to introduce these in the Tuesday classes. Total facepalm! Argh. Some weeks are like that. The next part is what I usually say in the Parent Note, so I want you to know it now because it will align with what it says in your Homework Booklet but again, I 🤦‍♀️forgot 🤦‍♀️to🤦‍♀️do🤦‍♀️it.   This week we introduced the flat, sharp, and natural. The homework book will remind you to add the flat, sharp, and natural signs to your flashcards. Release them from the banded portion and start practicing with them! Don't do it til next week when I promise I'll remember to do it in class! Wednesday class: release your cards!

GOOD TO KNOW

FLAT, SHARP, & NATURAL GAME: We will learn the names of these terms and how they work. We will also use our bodies and our voices to truly internalize and understand how each of these symbols can affect any of our regular music alphabet keys.

NOTE READING: We've been working hard on reading the notes of the spaces of the treble clef staff and matching them to the notes on the keyboard. This is an involved multi-step skill, and time spent on it now will make it so much easier as it solidifies over the next few years. Your kids have a few different tricks for figuring it out and they're doing great! Practice on this skill is actually this week's homework assignment!

FUN TO KNOW

We've been singing and playing ROLL THE BALL for all of Purple Magic. Here is an amazing video of a ball rolling down an entire mountain and making some phenominal music as it goes! This video makes me indescribably happy! This is what happens when science and music come together.