Green Turtles #4

NEED TO KNOW

Green Turtles #4: Your students are doing such a great job! I love their enthusiasm and their rock-star red chords!

CHORD HELPER/STICKERS: Be sure your student has one of these helps to solidify their red chords! It doesn't matter to me whether you use the Chord Helper or have the stickers on the keys. But it DOES matter to me that you do one of them! It will help them so much! For more info, including a video of cutting out the Helper and pictures on how and where things go, scroll down to the Parent Note from Green Turtles #3.

HARD STUFF: I feel that the first part of Green Turtles is one of the most intense parts of Let's Play Music. Sitting at the piano, putting beautiful bubble hands in C position, and asking fingers to work with each other but not at the same time is HARD STUFF. Give your Green Turtle a squeeze! They are doing hard things and should be proud of themselves!

CELEBRATE CONNECTION: To add some fun to practice, roll a die and play that many groups of twos or threes, or play Old Paint while singing with a cowboy voice, an opera voice, a baby voice, or any silly sound. Send a video to grandma and grandpa so they can enjoy the fun too!

PARENT WEEK AND TUITION DUE: Next week is a Parent Week and the next installment of tuition is due. I'll send a request through Wave this week. If you don't get one, it means you've already paid for this installment!

GOOD TO KNOW

WHITE KEYS: This week we reviewed anchor notes C & F in class with the 2nd verse of Kit Kat Keyboard. We also took some time to show how the black keys act as the map of the keyboard... cover them up and you don't know where you are!

RED CHORD: Do you want to build a snowman? This year, a red chord will always be "snowman red," stacked up nice and neat with a third on the bottom and a third on the top. Enjoy drawing rounded snowmen for the theory assignment this week!

OLD PAINT: Now that we know how to read and play a red chord, we get to revisit our favorite Old Paint! When you sing together, exaggerate the down beat: Good BYE Old PAINT, I'm LEAV-in' Chey-ENNE. I told the kids to play this until their mom gets sick of it, which I know you never will because who would ever get sick of Old Paint!?!?

FUN TO KNOW

TURTLE CRAFTING: Your Green Turtles have been working so hard! If they need a break from the keyboard, check out this fun turtle-out-of-an-egg-carton craft!