Activities by Purpose
Green Turtle Shells
Let’s Play Music
DO is Home
Turtle Shells
Kit Kat Keyboard
Bubble Hands
Chords in Pieces
Primary Chords song
Spring Bees
Pick a Bale o’ Cotton
Horsey, Horsey
Hurry, Hurry, Drive the
Firetruck
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Old Paint
Solfeg Seafriends
Sally Go ‘Round the Sun
Halloween is Coming
Blue Sky
Hoedown
Echo Edna
Can’t Bug Me
Johnny’s Hammers
Bunny’s Birdhouse
Jingle Bells
The Farmer in the Dell
Brown Jug
Taking Baby Steps
Principle purpose(s)
Secondary purposes(s)
Staff Notation
Pattern identification
Develop relative pitch
Internalize sound of middle C
Interval sound, notation, playing
Keyboard geography
Correct hand position
Chord ear training through
individual note study
Primary chord ear training and
function
Classical form familiarity
Major and minor tonality
Solfeg patterning: (SLTD)
Cadence patterning
Solfeg syllables and hand sings
Ear training
Harmony singing through
countermelody
Play SFMRD
Individual finger strength
Red/Yellow chord transition
Playing the red chord
Ear training hearing layers of sound
Harmony using canon
Staff notation, identifying
“Performing” as a group
Major/minor chord
Blue chord notation, playing
Classical form familiarity
Staff to keyboard relationship,
Sight reading steps and skips
Rhythm notation reading
Rhythm pattern identification
Yellow chord notation, playing
Staff reading, staff position
Red/yellow chord transition
Red/ yellow and red/blue
transition
Cadence patterning (MRD)
Anticipate the beat
Notation of a baby step
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Middle C notation
Names of keys
Finger numbers
Audiation
Introduce inversion concept
Playing primary chords
Primary chord notation
Loud and soft dynamics
Finger independence
Pattern notation
SFMRD
Steady beat
Playing as an ensemble
Ear training hearing layers of sound
Anticipating the beat
Blue chord function
Ear training
Staccato and legato differentiation
Solfeg pattern recognition
C position
Performing as an ensemble
Quarter note and half note chords
Middle C notation
Ear training
Self accompanying
Work and ‘perform’ as a group
Playing steps on the piano
Activities by Purpose
Yellow Arrows
Let’s Play Music
Principle purpose(s)
Lullaby and Goodnight
Gotta Shake
How to Skip
Oh When the Saints Go
Marching In
Don’t Put Your Trash
Tinga Layo
Staff notation
Pattern identification
Develop relative pitch
Interval sound, notation, playing
Familiarity with music alphabet
Keyboard geography
Correct hand position
Finger numbers
Play as part of an ensemble
Harmony through a round
Dotted quarter/eighth note
pattern
Independent finger strength
Correct technique, position
Prepare to play broken chord
Solfeg patterning (SMD)
Harmony through broken chords
Classical form familiarity
Solfeg patterning (SMD)
Play chords from notation
Follow given tempo
Play in parallel motion
Play major scale
Introduce ‘rest’
Staff to keyboard relationship,
Sight reading steps and skips
Rhythm notation reading
Rhythm pattern identification
Chord stylizing & improvisation
Play ‘rest’
Play skips from staff to keyboard
Learn ‘downbeat’
Chord stylizing: marching chord
Harmony through countermelody
Chord stylizing: calypso beat
Bug Scale
March of the Gnomes
The Wheels on the Bus
Practice Every Day
This Old Man
Chamniamo Gogo
Major scale: ‘tuck under’
Major/minor themes
Solfeg pattern (SMD)
Play 2 hands independently
Add a chord to a melody
Have fun and be silly!
DO is Home
Turtle Shells
Music Alphabet
Bubble Hands
Snowflakes are Falling
I’m an Indian
Caterpillar Song
Block and Broken
Go to Sleep
Pirate Ship
Girls and Boys
Love Somebody
Hickory Dickory Dock
Do Re Mi
Old MacDonald
Echo Edna
Can’t Bug Me
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Secondary purposes(s)
Cadence patterning
Solfeg syllables and hand sings
Internalize sound of middle C
Bass clef/left hand intervals
Names of keys
Introduce staff note names
Independent finger strength
Final ‘do’ for red chord resolution
Playing 5ths
Playing independent hand motion
Middle C position
Rhythmic pattern recognition/playing
Finger independence
Chord variations for improvising
Major/minor themes
Introduce ‘cross over’
Solfeg pattern recognition
C position
Performing as an ensemble
Play on the downbeat
Play on the downbeat
Ear training, layers of sound
Play on the downbeat
Feel rhythmic ostinato
Review bug rhythms
Downbeat
Read notes from staff
Review function of primary chords