Testimony

The results of Kindermusik extend beyond the weekly session. Archer has found his love for music through Kindermusik. He has become more engaged in activities that require joint attention. He would also initiate family members to join him in jumping and playing when his Kindermusik CD is played. The music and activities have stimulated Archer to be more aware of and involved with his surroundings. Kindermusik has made Archer a happier kid and me a proud mother. ~ Constance Wun, mother of three year-old Archer

Friday, October 30, 2009

Music for Young Children Moonbeams I (keyboard Ages 7 - 9) Lesson 7

S-9: We’re the Champions v. 3
S-7: Crescendos are Such Fun

H-16: I Can Read
H-17: Cresc./Decresc.
HC-37: all (RC with ti-ti)
HC-19 & 21: TC 9, 10, 11

W-11: Jumping Jacks Warmup
W-12: Five Pattern Warmup
C-G bridge

Review Tractor Pull
(K-27: In the Big League)
K-28: Moonbeams Band
K-29: Treble Clef, G Clef
K-30: Bass Clef, F Clef

KS-102: Halloween Night
Add C-G bridge to K-15/16

E-4: Chopin Info.
E-5: Rainbows

L-8: Good Listening!
C-G bridge

Terms and concepts:
Ti-ti,
TC F,
BC lo C, G
Crescendo
Decrescendo
Voice Channel: whispering

Review line/l/l pattern or space/s/s pattern on tinsheet staff for ‘jumping’

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Music for Young Children Sunbeams III (keyboard ages 7 - 8) L6

S-8: Harmonic and Melodic

Button

Bright Ideas: Pages 78, 79, 134, 142, 194

W-14: a Minor Etude
W-34, 35: a minor scale with chords
S/R: W-53 (3rd)
W-59 (2nd)
K-12, 13: Windy Autumn
K-14: Rockin Aeolian 


L-17: Tonality

RCM Halloween Pranks

E-11: Shortnin Bread


a minor scales, chords

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Music for Young Children Sunbeams I (keyboard Ages 5 - 6) Lesson 7

S-11 Grump
S-9 Edyth (3)
S-10 Busy Beaver (2)

H-20 Mrs. G Clef
H-21 Sunbeams Like to Cut and Paste
“G is a grumpy grouchy groundhog”
C to G

K-22,23 G
K-24 Clap Your Hands
K-25 Bye-Lo
K-26-27 Ode To Spider Fingers
KS-128 My Dog
KS-129 Tiny Spider
KS-131 Flower Song

S-63 Grumpy Groundhog

L-14 Voice Choice
L-15 Rhythm Rings

Music stories
(hop, turtle, busy beaver)

E-9 Groundhogs
E-7 Edyth (wk 3)
E-8 Little Children (wk 2)
E-1Music Story (line 4)(wk 2)

G lines

Music for Young Children Sunshine 1 (keyboard Ages 3-4) L7

S-10: We Can Move
S-20: Edyth


Wishing Song
Bye Low Baby Oh

H-15: crescendo

K-18-19: E
K-22: Edyth

S-39: Colors v.2
S-40: Pumpkins v. 1 & 2

L-20: p, f, crescendo
L-23: stepping up

E-10: Bugs

Terms and Concepts: Edyth, crescendo, stepping up, combine l&d in Rhythm Stories

Monday, October 26, 2009

Music for Young Children Sunbeams II (keyboard Ages 5 - 6) Lesson 6


S-7 Mr. Mozart

H-11 Apples, Pumpkins and Cats
H-13 Complete the Songs

W-40, 41 C Major
W-9 Swinging Through The Scale
W-12 My Two Hands

K-9 Reach For The Stars
KS-81 Who-o-o

Terms: D.C. al fine, Roman Numeral

L-9 Be An Echo
L-10 Rhythm Riddles I

E-3 Au Vous Dirai-Je Maman

C major chords

Music for Young Children Moonbeams III (keyboard ages 9 - 11) Lesson 6

MB Swing (pt 2)

Hanon
BC
G Major

Bright Ideas: Pages 17, 35, 63, 106, 107, 108, 135,

Terms: presto, prestissimo,
dolce, fine

Canadian: Klondike

RCM:
Invention #7
Minuet in G


Ensemble: Rondo Alla Turca


Listening: Classical E-3, E-13

Sightreading: SRC-3

Friday, October 23, 2009

Music for Young Children Moonbeams I (keyboard Ages 7 - 9) Lesson 6

S-8: We’re the Champions

H-13: Copy Cat
H-14: What is the Hidden Picture?
H-15: Grand Staff is Grand

HC-7: PC 8, 9

W-9: First Roller Coaster Ride
W-10 Butterfly Hands
RH – LH playing
Tractor Pull (#2)

K-24: Moonbeams Rule!
K-25: Moonbeams Shine
K-26: Reading

E-3: Clarinet Polka con't.
L-7: Bouncing Ball Patterns
jumping, JUH, JDL

Pieces RH to LH & HT

Terms and Concepts:
Repeat sign
Half rest and whole rest

Voice Channel: talking

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Music for Young Children Sunbeams III (keyboard ages 7 - 8) L5

S-7: Composer Song
S-8: Harmonic and Melodic

Button

Bright Ideas: Pages 27, 35, 39, 96, 125

W-13 Pop Pop
W-34, 35: a minor scale
K-11: Turkey in the Straw
K-9 Autumn Days
K-12: Windy Autumn
KS-57: Turkey in the Straw

L-5: Articulation

RCM: Jumping Jacks

E-11: Shortnin Bread


Intro. a minor
Circle of 5th, sticker
C major

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Music for Young Children Sunbeams I (keyboard Ages 5 - 6) Lesson 6

S-10 Busy Beaver
S-8 Creepy Crawly (3)
S-9 Edyth (2)

The Wishing Song

H-17 Busy Beaver puppet
H-19 We Are Whispering

W-1 Circus
K-20 Sleepy Time
K-21 Time To Go
KS-127 Thanksgiving Day

L-12 Busy Beaver
L-13 Pattern Puzzles

Music stories
(hop, turtle, busy beaver)

E-8 Little Children
E-1 Music Story (line 4)
E-6 Crawly Critter (wk 3)
E-5 Music Garden (wk 3)
E-7 Edyth (wk 2)

Terms and Concepts:
Busy beaver
Treble Clef (TC)

Music for Young Children Sunshine 1 (keyboard Ages 3-4) L6

S-10: We Can Move
S-14: Turtle
S-19: Critter C
S-47: Creepy C

Solfege: Wishing Song

H-11: den & firehall
WB-3: whispering

K-11: C pictures
K-16: C & D
K-12: Critter Friends

L-6: escalators
L-25: standing still
L-36: Turtle trail

E-4: The Famer l & d
E-5: Crawly Critters

Concepts:
S-I S (Standing Still) pattern,
whispering

Monday, October 19, 2009

Music for Young Children Sunbeams II (keyboard Ages 5 - 6) Lesson 5

S-6 Moderato

H-7 Roman Friends
H-8 Roman Numeral Practice
H-9 Making a Delicious Song

W-40, 41 C Major
W-7 All Grown Up
W-8 Sliding Low, Sliding High
W-32 C Major Chord Changes (Line 4)


K-10 Clowns
KS-80 Halloween For Sunbeams

Terms: Moderato

L-7 Listen
L-8 Echo Games

E-1 Composer Geog.
E-2 Mozart
E-3 Au Vous Dirai-J

Technique:
Tractor Pull

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Music for Young Children Moonbeams III (keyboard ages 9 - 11) Lesson 5

MB Swing (pt. 2)

Hoot & Hanon BC a minor

Bright Ideas: Pages 16, 37, 58, 103, 104, 105, 131

Vocabularies: melodic/harmonic intervals, semitone, whole tones

Canadian Folk Songs: Klondike

RCM: Invention #7
A Minuet n G/ or
Minuet in C

Ensemble: Rondo Alla Turca

Ear Training:
Classical E-3
E-13

Sightreading: SRC-3

Friday, October 16, 2009

Music for Young Children Moonbeams I (keyboard Ages 7-9) Lesson 5

S-6
S-8 We’re the Champions

H-11: Rhythm Riddles
H-12: Look at the Notes We Know!
HC-35: all (RC with O)
HC-15 & 17: TC 7, 8

W-7: RH Notes, LH Notes
W-8: Walking Warmup

Review Igloo Push

K-21: They Played Their Best
K-22: Night Wishes
(K-23: Go Team Go!)


E-3: Clarinet Polka con’t.

L-5: Pattern Power Play
L-6: Dynamic Baseball

Voice Channel: singing

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Music for Young Children Sunbeams III (keyboard ages 7 - 8) L4

S-6: Clementi
S-7: Composer Song

Bright Ideas: Pages 26, 37, 38, 133, 135, 165

W-12: Happy Slurs
W-32: C scale w/chords
W-33: C triad solid and broken CAT

K-8: Sonatina or
K-7: Making Our Own piano

L-24: Composing

RCM: Jumping Jacks

E-10: Come and Dance With Me
E-9: Sonatina

C major contrary motion
C major cadence, Contrary motion
C major scale

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Music for Young Children Sunshine 1 (keyboard Ages 3-4) Lesson 5

S-8: Fingers Dancing
S-14: Turtle
S-19: Critter C

H-9: turtle puppet

K-9-10: C
K-8: Turkeys
K-6: den & firehall

S-39: Colors v.1

Den vs firehall

L-2: Turtle
L-9-hi.lo

E-4: The Farmer l & d
E-5: Crawly Critters

Creepy, Turtle, den vs firehall

Music for Young Children Sunbeams I (keyboard Ages 5 - 6) Lesson 5

S-9 Edyth The Elk
S-7 Slow Poke (3)
S-8 Creepy Crawly (2)

H-13 Find the homes on Music Street
H-15 We Are Shouting

“E is an elegant elk named Edyth”

C, D, E, F

K-15 Patterns
K-16 ,17 E
K-18-19 Music Lessons
KS-124 Practicing My Homework
KS-125 I’ll Say Boo
KS-126 Give Thanks

L-9 Where Or Where
L-10 Circle What You Hear

Music stories (hop, turtle)

E-7 Edyth
E-1 Music Stories (wk 3)
E-6 Crawly Critter (wk 2)
E-5 Music Garden (wk 2)

Stepping down

Friday, October 9, 2009

Music for Young Children Moonbeams I (keyboard Ages 7-9) Lesson 4

S-5
S-6: Lines & Spaces

H-9: Lineballs/Spaceballs
H-10: Happy Habit Scoreboard

HC-11 & 13: TC 1, 2, 3, 4
HC-15 & 17: TC 5, 6

W-6: Second Left Hand Challenge
review W-4, W-5

review: LH mC and loC positions

Igloo Push (#7)

K-16: Music Alphabet
K-17: More Music Alphabet
K-18: D in the Dugout
(K-19: Sing with Me, Music Band)
K-20: Side by Side
KS-100: Hunting We Will Go

E-3: Clarinet Polka

L-4: hi/lo on tree/ grand staff

TC: C, D, E
BC: C, B, A

Stop sign, bar lines (rhythm stories)

4/4 time sig.,

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Music for Young Children Sunbeams I (keyboard Ages 5 - 6) Lesson 4

S-8 Creepy Crawly Critter C
S-6 Fingers Dancing (wk 3)
S-7 Slow Poke (wk. 2)

H-12 We Are Talking
H-16 One of these things

“C is a creepy crawly critter”
C, D, F


K-11 Critter Friends
K-12,13 C
K-14 Music Friends
KS-122 Dancing Fun
KS-123 Fun

L-7 Always Listening (f, p)
L-8 WDYH? High/low
L-11 Which pattern do you


Music stories (hop, turtle)

E-5 Music Garden
E-6 Crawly Critter
E-3 Dinosaurs (wk 3)
E-1 Music Stories (wk 2)


New Concepts:
C
Stepping up, stepping down

Music for Young Children Sunshine 1 (keyboard Ages 3-4) Lesson 4

S-3: Dinosaurs
S-4 Fred
S-8: Fingers Dancing
S-12: Rabbit

WB-2: draw or cut and paste singing pictures

K-24-25-26: F
K-7: Colors

Review 3 black keys

L-10: hi/low

E-3: Instrument Fun

New concepts: Fireman Fred F key, singing

Monday, October 5, 2009

Music for Young Children Sunbeams II (keyboard Ages 5 - 6) Lesson 4

S-5 Fall

H-6 Raindrops

W-40, 41 C Major
W-6 Snowman with Knees
W-32 C Major Chord Changes (Line 3)

K-6 Not Too Big
KS-79 Special Times

Terms: IV, Andante

L-5 I, IV chords
L-6 Playing with Patterns

E-15 Sur le Pont d’Avignon

Igloo Push

Music for Young Children Moonbeams III (keyboard Ages 7-9) Lesson 4

Hoot & Hanon: Manitoba
a minor

Bright Ideas: Pages 15, 41, 52, 100,

Canadian: Red River Valley

RCM: C Invention #7 (Teapot invention)

Study #4

Ensemble: Rondo Alla Turca

Sightreading: SRC-2

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Music for Young Children Moonbeams I (keyboard Ages 7-9) Lesson 3

S-3
S-4
S-5: Where is My Friend?

Hot Cross Buns , make conscious: mrd
sing with handsigns

H-7: Lines & Spaces
H-8: Keyboard Race
HC-1: PC 6,
HC-7: PC 7,
HC-9: all, RC with ta rest

W-4: Right Hand Challenge
W-5: First Left Hand Challenge
use all 5 fingers
new: LH middle C and lowC positions
(K-11: Rowing)
K-12-13: Joe MacDonald’s Band
K-14: Share a Chair
K-15: “Move Apart”, Grandma Says
KS-99: What’s Your Game?

E-2: Where is my Friend? con’t.
L-3: Treble Clef? Bass Clef? hi/lo

Staff = 5 lines, 4 spaces
Grand Staff
Ta rest

Treble Clef: mC & D
Bass Clef: mC
S-I USH (stepping up so high), S-I DSL (Stepping down so low)

Music for Young Children Sunbeams III (keyboard ages 7 - 8) L3


S-5: I’m Such a Dynamic Person

Bright Ideas: Pages 13, 25, 43, 120, 174

W-12: Happy Slurs
W-32: C scale w/chords
W-33: C Triad solid
S/R: W-57 (3rd)

K-5: Alouette
K-6: Copy Me
KS-56: Pilgrims

L-28: Big Ears

RCM: Jumping Jacks

E-10: Come and Dance With Me


C major triads,

Music for Young Children Sunbeams I (keyboard Ages 5 - 6) Lesson 3

S-7 Slow Poke
S-5 Rabbit (3)
S-3 Fireman Fred ( 3)
S-4 Dinosaurs (wk. 3)
S-6 Fingers Dancing (wk. 2)

H-9 Turtle Puppet
H-11 We Are Singing

“F is a fireman whose name is Fred”

D, F

K-7 A Song For Me
K-8, 9 F
K-10 Fred and Dino

L-4 WDYH? High/low
L-6 Turtle

Music stories (hop, turtle)

E-1 Music Stories (line 1, 2)
E-4 Fred
E-1 Music Stories (line 1)(wk. 2)
E-3 Dinosaurs (wk 2)

Terms/Concepts:
Turtle
F

Give toolbox, one card holder, Standing still Pattern card