Lesson 8: Tick Tick with Albert Alarm Clock

LESSON OVERVIEW
1) Winding Albert Alarm Clock in Musical Time: TEMPO
2) Structural components of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"

The students learned about tempo, which is the speed at which themusic is to be played. However the kids can relate to real worldexamples as you will see on pg 14 of the Activity Book.
ADAGIO - italian for a slow, walking pace could be the rate ofmovement for a snail or turtle perhaps.
MODERATO - italian for a moderate pace; like walking, gliding
ALLEGRO - italian for fast; think of a racecare, firetruck etc.

We danced to a few songs to illustrate the tempo changes ie. TheLittle Caterpillar (lullaby-like), Flight of the Bumblebee (find thisclassic xylophone song on youtube if you like), and "Let's All Make aGreat Big Circle" at the three different tempos.

The kids should have been practising the UP scale, CDEFG while singing"Step-ping Up So High!"

Components of Twinkle Twinkle
i) A giant skip (interval) C leap to G, say Cat to Giant.
ii) GFEDC down scaleENRICHMENT: iii) Play the down scale sequence repeating each note twice.

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
1) Read the Orange chapter about Albert Alarm Clock. (read ahead oftime and choose to summarize or paraphrase to keep it brief)
2) Tempo Review Pg 14
3) Play the UP scale sequence, starting at every "Cat" on the piano*
4) Review the giant leap, Cat to Giant*
5) Play the DOWN scale sequence(s), with one finger.*

* Refer to the hand formation tips above! We have two more classes to bring us to the end of the session,Musicland Adventures 1. These books maybe used again for further studyeven for private lessons.

Musicland Piano Keyboard GAME:
Comes with a spinner and a full 88 keycolour-coded keyboard. The students will leap up (sometimes down) thekeyboard from Home to Musicland. $12.95 website price. If you areinterested we can do a combined order and split the shipping cost.Please let me know!
Thank you for reading.