Yellow Arrows #12

NEED TO KNOW

Yellow Arrows #12: I am so proud of your students. They are absorbing so much, and learning how to do hard things.

PARENT WEEK/TUITION DUE: Next week is Parent Week, and the last tuition payment is due. I'll send out invoices this week, and I'll see you in class with your students next week!

END-OF-YEAR RECITAL: Our End-of-Year Recital will be on Saturday, April 25 at 5:00. It will be held at the church at 5900 West Castle Drive. We are not a performing group, but we will take an opportunity to celebrate the things your kids have learned and do it in a fun way! Your 2nd Year students will wear their LPM shirts and black/denim bottoms. The performance outline is listed below. 

Recital Practice List:

Trash*Fish*Pop:

We'll talk about harmony and then we'll sing it. The whole group will do all parts, then each kid will get to decide which "team" to be on and sing that part. 

C Song:

I'll ask students questions, then we'll sing it.

Robin Hood: as written on page 1

Everybody! We'll do this three (or four depending on how I end up setting things up) times to allow each student to play it. If your student doesn't want to play it, they don't have to. (sing when you're not playing)

Challenge Song:

Each student will have the chance to show off by themselves on the keyboards. They can choose to play anything in the Green Turtles or Yellow Arrows songbook. Whatever they want to!

Pirate Ship Puppet Show

We'll do this Puppet Show with scarves.

If you can't be there, it will be okay! The purposes of Let's Play Music happen during classtime, and the recital is just a bonus!

Registration for Fall: Thank you for getting your registrations in! If you haven't finalized it yet, here is the link to get that done.

GOOD TO KNOW

Tinga Layo: In class this week, we drew in the 'bulls eye' and 'arrow feather' to create a stylized calypso accompaniment in your student's songbook. I also added an arc of color to show what chord they are playing at what time. Check it out on page 23! If your student wasn't there or didn't have their book, here is a visual of what it should look like!

 

Hickory Dickory Dock: Tick, tock, let us rock, while playing in parallel motion! This is tricky business! Playing the same note together with both hands at the same time means playing with different fingers, which is surprisingly difficult. I didn't get to this in the 2:00 class, but the after-school class did a great job at it. Almost everybody got it!

FUN TO KNOW

Vladimir Horowitz, multiple Grammy-winning Ukrainian-American pianist and composer, is considered one of the greatest pianists of all time. "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary," he said, "is practice." The obvious-ness reminds me a little of The LEGO Movie: "I know it sounds like a cat poster, but it's true!"