Seimpi Lesson 5

15 Aug 2010 (Sun): Seimpi Lesson 5

We arrived a little earlier today & went straight to the keyboard. Lazy mummy did not practice with Rachel & so we did some last minute preparation.

Today, teacher Marcia taught another 2 new notes: quaver & semi quaver

Quaver = Half Count

Semi Quaver = Quarter Count

To help the kids remember, quaver is quoted as having 1 tail & semi quaver having 2 tails. Hehe.

We did a recap of all previous lessons learnt like the notes C D E, playing with thumbkin, pointer & tallman, semi breve, dotted minim, minim & crotchet & their counts, and also using cards to mix & match accordingly.

Teacher Marcia used her flash cards to go thru the notes, including quaver & semi quaver & the kids have to tell the number of counts/pizza/star each note has. I find the kids very "cooperative" in this game. When teacher Marcia flashed semi breve, someone wld mention 'semi breve', another wld say '4 counts', then a 3rd child wld helped by saying the next note. The cycles continues.... ( no discussion prior to play the game this way) Haha.

Of cos, the piano banner was not forgotten. Each kid was asked to stepped on the 'C' key or 'D' key, and also on the 2 black bars & 3 black bars respectively.

Then we played another game. With their backs facing the teacher, the kids got to listen to the number of claps teacher Marcia clapped & answer accordingly. There's this child by the name of Shealey or something, i find her very smart. Apparently, she has attended some music classes before.

On the activity book, we did 2 units. We listened to some tracks on the player & the kids got to circle the number of shapes according to what they heard on the player. For example, in track 10, the player wld play 2 claps, so the kids circled '2' etc...

Rachel wanted to use the same colour as the corresponding picture to do her work. So she used green for track 10, followed by blue (11), yellow (12) & pink (13).

In this unit, we traced the dotted lines with our fingers & use a crayon/coloured pencil to do the tracing, helping the clown to find his house.

This was the homework given last week. Teacher Marcia went thru with each child again, on the notes shown & guided them on the keyboard.

Teacher Marcia commented that Rachel has the potential in playing the piano & recommends that we invest in a keyboard so that she can practise.

Homework for next week wld still be playing the above piece but this time while pressing down on the keys, the child got to say out loud the notes at the same time. More keyboard guidance will be done in the next few lessons. Till then...