Lesson Format

LESSON FORMAT: Group lessons up to 10 students= organized, supportive, chanllenging and fun!


Tentative Outline of Class Each Week:
Ice Breaker Game
Read Quote of the Day- Different child each week/Conductor for the day!
Posture Check
Arm Exercises
Scale Practice/rhythm/intonation
Review a song (after accumulation of 5, start picking from a jar)
Learn a song: Listen, Sing it, clap it, pluck it, play it, See it, Talk it (types of notes)
Check a song: anyone ready to be checked off? (In tune and in rhythm): pick from prize box!!!
* everyone plays it with the student for the first time, then each student ready will play solo
Fun with a song (fast, slow, copy cat, eyes closed, on knees, in a chair, pluck it)




Project Ideas:
-make up a song
-find a song from a cd or radio or movie
-learn vocab
-review a composer or musician
-learn different genres of music, different time periods
-learn christmas music