2014 Year-End Recitals - YOU'RE INVITED

Look What We've Been Up To!

A little pirate fun with our "Pirate Ships" puppet show.  The kids have recognized the major and minor themes in Brahms' Hungarian Dance.

 In Sound Beginnings Gold Stars classes we've flown all over the galaxy, counted stars, and made some good friends.  What a cute group!

 And in Blue Bugs, we just finished up with the Trimphant March puppet show.

Registration and Upcoming Sample Classes

Pre- registration for 2014-2015 classes has begun.  To pre-register you will need to get your deposit ($25 LPM/$10 Sound Beginnings) to me and contact me to verify class time.  See the schedule and registration tabs for more information.

I will be holding first-year sample classes, with the first one coming up next week: Wednesday, February 26 @ 10:00 a.m.  Spots in these sample classes are limited so contact me to save your spot.

Now Registering for Sound Beginnings: Gold Stars Semester

Forms are available in person or on line at: http://fs11.formsite.com/lmpemilyr/form6/index.html

If you would like to come participate in a class, please contact me!

Building Language with Music

I randomly stumbled on an article on two-daloo.com, "Building Language With Music" (link here) about the power of music in building language skills. Little did I realize, until the end of the article, that my friend and mother of one of my cute level 2 students was the guest blogger.  She definitely knows her stuff and has helped me personally with some concerns about my own children.  Yay!  Katie!

Research has long shown that music helps "unlock" language abilities in the brain.  My experience teaching my son in Sound Beginnings has shown this to be true.

Recital Pictures!

I am so proud of these kids for a great job done at the recital.  These kids learned so much this year and we had a GREAT time each class.  

Thanks for all the parent support at the recital and throughout the year!

Scotland's Burning

Miss Emily

Sound Beginnings kids doing "Two Little Blackbirds"

We love our BUGS!!

LPM and Sound Beginnings kids doing their major scale hand-signs.  Amazing!

Sound Beginnings Sample Class

Come enjoy a free sample class of the fall curriculum for Sound Beginnings.  

Sound Beginnings, a similar class to Let's Play Music, is designed to give kids that are too young for Let's Play Music (2-4 years old)  a jump start on music and preschool concepts.  

Specific skills that will be covered this semester include:

feeling and keeping the beat
in-tune singing, pitch matching, head register
solfeg, major scale descending
tracking; reading preparation
singing & recognizing alphabet
phonemic awareness & phonics
developing relative pitch
low and high
enjoyment of classical music
developing recognition of theme and form
subdivision
dexterity
months
colors
manners
weather
name recognition

You're Invited

Please come to our 2013 Year-End Recital

Saturday, May 4th 2013

11:00 AM

Wasatch High School Little Theater

Featuring Students from Both Sound Beginnings and Let's Play Music

Sound Beginnings Instrument Day Inspiration

One of my favorite lessons each semester of Sound Beginnings is our last one where students get to bring and share about instruments (and instrumentalists) they love.  This relaxed and fun day is a blast!  Students are welcome to bring an instrument that is laying around the house, especially fun is when a loved one can play that instrument and show first-hand what is sounds like and how it works.  Last semester we had an uncle come along and play some Christmas songs on his trumpet since it was that season.  How proud those little boys were of what (and who) they got to share!

Sometimes a real instrument isn't accessible or the process of creating one and exploring the ways that sound is produced as it is created is more desirable.  The following are a few links to some inspiration for a home-made instrument.

• Rainstick (my cute sister-in-law made this one.)
• Paper Plate Banjo
• Drums, Egg Shakers, Bell Shakers, Cardboard Guitar, Etc
• Easter Egg Maracas
• Drums (and an experiment on how sound is made)
• DIY Instrument Kits  (good visual inspiration.  Love the jingle bell bracelet.)
• Wind instrument Craft

Online Registration for 2013-2014 Classes

With kindergarten and preschool registration starting up, that means it is time for us to also be thinking about fall registration for Let's Play Music and Sound Beginnings.  I'm proud to say that online registration is now available at the following links.

Sound Beginnings "BLACK SPIDERS" Semester:
 http://fs11.formsite.com/lmpemilyr/form10/index.html

LPM Red Balloons/Blue Bugs (First Year Classes):
 http://fs11.formsite.com/lmpemilyr/form7/index.html

LPM Green Turtle Shells/Yellow Arrows (Second Year Classes): http://fs11.formsite.com/lmpemilyr/form9/index.html

Truly A Sound Beginning

Sure singing and playing with our kids is fun, and we feel good about it, but what does it do for our kids?  And what can babies actually learn?The National Association for the Education of Young Children, which exists to advocate and educate for young children, says babies benefit more than we think!  Click below to read on:

http://families.naeyc.org/learning-and-development/music-math-more/10-ways-babies-learn-when-we-sing-them

Sound Beginnings - Shapes Coloring Page Link

This semester in Sound Beginnings we are exploring shapes.  As I was browsing the web, I found some awesome shape coloring pages that you could use in addition to our weekly "assignment."  Great for cutting out and making faces just like we did in class.

Crayola Shapes Coloring Pages
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