Kindermusik Young Child, Week 9

This week in Young Child we reviewed the rhythm concepts of Ta (quarter note)  Rest (quarter note rest) and TiTi (eighth note, two eighth notes equal one quarter not.  This means TiTi equals Ta.)  We started to visually represent these rhythms using the white cards that your child received in class this week. The cards should be in there bags in a red envelope.  Using their cards, have them set out and then play different 4 beat rhythm patterns.

A concept that could use your reinforcement at home is that they don’t need two TiTi cards to represent TiTi, one card represents both TiTi’s.  (The TiTi card is the card that looks like a table. It has two marks connected with a straight line across the top.  It looks like an eighth note without the head.) They would need too cards to represent Ta  Ta,  Each Ta gets one beat while a single Ti gets only half a beat. Each white card represents 1 beat.   

I was excited to let the children take home their glockenspiels.  Please have them practice learning to strike the bars correctly.  Remind them to be careful with their instrument.  Here is the rhyme to help them remember how to play the glockenspiel. 

Mallets are resting as quiet as can be.

Would you like to try them? Come and follow me.

Thumbs are up and Pointer comes out.

Here is Tall Man, now turn them about.

Lift at the mark and hold your mallets steady.

This is the place we call ready.

Now gently bouncing from bar to bar,

Are your elbows out, don’t bounce too far.

Mallets are resting as quiet as can be.

Thank you for playing your glockenspiel with me.

Remember we got our glockenspiels early this semester because I want to start teaching them to play Jingle Bells for the Holidays.