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’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.,

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

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

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