Year 3 Starter Program

Year 3 Starter Program

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The Year 3 Starter Program features the third lesson in the Primary Prodigies series. Primary Prodigies is our more advanced series for kids ages 6 and up. This lesson is all about musical steps and the distance between notes on the staff. These five videos make up the week 3 Primary Prodigies Lesson.

Be sure to download the lesson plan above, and complete the checklist and corresponding worksheets.

Video One: Melodies #9 The first video, Melodies #9, is a fun singing and hand-signing video. Students will review notes on the Solfege scale, and warm up their hands and voices by singing and hand-signing along. At the beginning of each Prodigies lesson, there is a suggested activator or warm up video to get students engaged. This week, it’s Melodies #9, featuring musical steps.

Video Two: Musical Steps The second video, Musical Steps, is this week’s core lesson. This lesson is an introduction to notes that live one space apart, or musical steps. After the core lesson, students will practice playing along to a song featuring musical steps, “Five Little Pumpkins”.

Video Three: Five Little Pumpkins Song: Sing, hand-sign and play lots of musical steps in 5 Little Pumpkins

Video Three: Five Little Pumpkins Performance: Try playing 5 Little Pumpkins again without the help of Mr. Rob

Video Four: Hand-Signs and Scale Degrees The last video is a review of an earlier lesson in Primary Prodigies Chapter 1. This is a great way to review the C major scale.

If you don’t have an instrument, check out our free instruments apps (iOS, Android and Amazon Fire), or continue using the hand-sign for Do.

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