Homeschool teaching guide

Prodigies Academy Homeschool Parent teaching guide Storms In The Skyy Homeschool 2021

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Welcome Families! We are so excited to get you and your children learning and exploring music together with the Prodigies Academy! The Academy is designed to be a hands-on learning experience with you as the teacher and your child as the student. In this guide, you will find the teacher thapolasrvtooegwrfvriianlilemdwnoaswltlaaandspdodpweslynts/eligompnaadebkdayebsilnsteeebnmpesaeinutsefsotrerirdaulycsiontiutoahntasostcfuhyoosoreuoalinlnsleelyeetodtsui.snroPgnlheasoanmsidneettskhhceeihesropeporimlno. gaPmrylaeinmbadse.etcYhjoouaunstttwetsnhikltilsip over that content or see if you can find a way to make it work for you! If you have any questions, please reach out to me directly at [email protected]

How to use this guide As mentioned, in this guide, you will find overviews and instructions for the lessons your child will use in the Academy. I will include the same title on the slide as what your child will see so you can easily match them up. Please note that some slides will include more then one lesson. Feel free to skip over any lessons or content that does not apply to you or your child. You may find lessons you are not interested in completing or that may be missing content (it will be there soon). On the next page, I will go over logging in and making sure you are set up in the correct class.

Logging in and selecting your class After your child has been added to the courses, you will receive three emails. When your child goes to login, you will select which course to start using. The three courses are • All Lessons • All Lessons with Teacher • Video Library- (the library is also in the other courses at the bottom. To use this guide, you will want your child to use the course with teacher.

Course Switching • If at any point, you want your child to switch to the non-teacher course or the video library, you can do that by clicking Switch class in the bottom right. • If you contact me to make a custom class, this is also where you would go to find it.

To get started, your child will click on the Up Next box! The title of that lesson will be displayed and will match the information in this guide. The first one will say Activator. The next slide here will be your first lesson overview followed by the printable material, then instructions!

Welcome to Music K.L01 Lesson Overview • The purpose of this lesson is to introduce children to music and to help them differentiate music compared to noise. Lesson Essential Question • How can a child identify music? Concepts/Objectives • Describe the difference between noise and music. • Define music. • Identify musical notes against other sounds. Standards • MU:Cr1.1.Ka With guidance, explore and experience music concepts (such as beat and melodic contour) • Author's Notes: With the help of a teacher, students will be given the opportunity to learn all the musical phvfuoaigncrhtaaslainztndahdtacithorenimgahcatiokvtueoeldulwopbaweya.. isIscooonlangti.ceTdnhoaetnafdoticeouxnps lcooarfnetdhb.eeIncuorsereegdactroodnsrteteoinntfmowrecilloel dbticheectooidnbetraoinuogrf, atthhlleeobfmeteahltoe,dseeyxepgraocreitsssefstrooignmetlhoewr in a to

Optional Printable Materials for lessons • Please click on the link to download the printable materials for the upcoming lessons. When you get to a slide that says printable option, I will let you know which one to use.

Activator and The Tooty Ta Instructions: • Take a few minutes with your child to go over what you expect of them while using this program. • Make this a fun and engaging time with your child and get them excited about the coming year! • On their screen, they will see a prompt to practice the motions of “The Tooty Ta” After you have practiced the movements, go to the next slide to watch the video. Clap and sign along with Mr.Rob!

Reinforcement Instructions: • Discuss with your child things that they think they will do or would like to do in music class this year. Tell your child that they will have fun playing instruments, moving and dancing, singing, creating their own songs, playing fun games, and so much more! • Review any behavior expectations and any routines or procedures that will be used, including how to handle instruments you may be using.

Movement Instructions: • Use this time to allow your child to get acclimated to and excited for music class. Play some upbeat and fun music that your child enjoys and allow them to dance, wave scarves, or play instruments along with the music

Connection Instructions: • Show images of several activities or objects that your child is familiar with. Ask them which images make music and which make only noise. Discuss reasons why something is music vs. noise. (Ex. crying baby, firetruck, barking dog, chirping bird, mom singing lullaby, child playing piano, man singing, kids playing ball)

Social Emotional Learning Instructions: • Talk about how music is a part of our everyday lives. Give examples of music heard throughout the day, or activities we do that involve music. • Allow your child to share an activity or time when they hear music during their day or to tell you when and why they like to listen to music throughout the day.

Meteor Man and Printable Options Instructions: • Sing along with the video Meteor Man Instructions: • Printable options are supplementary materials you might use or assign as desired. • Use The Tooty Ta printable sheet!

Review Questions for Assessment Instructions: • Ask the following review questions to gauge your child’s comprehension: • what is an example of a sound that is not music? answers vary, • what is an example of a sound that is music? answers vary • Have your child complete the assessment • Once completed, submit to be graded.

Steady Beat with Sweet Beets K.L02 Lesson Overview • The purpose of this lesson is to help children develop the ability to play and feel steady beat by tapping, clapping and stomping to steady rhythms. Lesson Essential Question • How can a steady beat make music? Concepts/Objectives • Perform a steady beat. • Recognize different beat patterns. • Make steady beats using various body percussion. Standards • cMoUn:tCoru1r).1.Ka With guidance, explore and experience music concepts (such as beat and melodic • MU:Cr1.1.Kb With guidance, generate musical ideas (such as movements or motives).

Activator and Steady Beats • Instructions: • Introduce the concept of call and response by clapping the Rhythm of the Day and having your child 'echo' the rhythm back. • Several rhythm patterns have been given to reinforce this important concept. • Instructions: • Play Steady Beat Video. Encourage your child to count and sing along with Mr. Rob.

Reinforcement and • Instructions: • Using percussion instruments or body percussion, practice keeping a steady beat to several song tracks or a metronome set at different speeds.

Movement • Instructions: • Demonstrate several body percussion options (tap on head, shoulders, legs, snap fingers, stomp feet, etc.) Have your child copy your percussion movements to the beat of several music clips. Point out how the steady beat changed for each song (some were faster or slower).

Connection • Instructions: • Talk with your child about our hearts and the steady beat it keeps all day long. Read a book about the heart such as Hear Your Heart by Paul Showers or Henry's Heart by Charise Mericle Harper. • Take time to appreciate and be thankful for all the things we can do because of our hearts. Allow your child to think of activities that their heart's steady beat allows them to partake in (running, playing, speaking, singing).

Collaboration • Instructions: • Teach your child how to play Rock, Paper, Scissors by making a fist with one hand and tapping four steady beats on the open palm of their other hand while saying, \"Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shoot\", and on the word 'shoot' showing a balled fist for rock, a flat hand for paper, or two fingers out for scissors. • Children may need guidance remembering that scissors beats paper, paper beats rock, and rock beats scissors. • play several rounds with your child.

Digital Interaction • Instructions: • Children will click on the objects pictured to hear the steady beat they make. • Please note- Content for this slide may be missing. Please skip if the page is blank!

Let Us Play and Printable Option • Instructions: • Encourage your child to play or sign/sign along with the extension video: Let Us Play Activator • Instructions: • Printable options are supplementary materials you might use or assign as desired. • Use the Steady Beet printable

Review Questions and Assessment • Instructions: • Ask the following review questions to gauge your child’s comprehension: • what vegetable did our video use to show a steady beat? sweet beet • what is something in life that has a steady beat? answers vary • what is something in life that does not have a steady beat? answers vary • Have your child complete the assessment • Once completed, submit to be graded.

Hello C Part 1 K.L03 Lesson Overview • The purpose of this lesson is to help children identify the color, sound, and letter for the note C. Lesson Essential Question • How can a child identify the note C? Concepts/Objectives • Identify the note C using color, sound and other fixed labels. • Distinguish the note C from other sounds. Standards • MotUhe:Crnd1is1c.i0p.lKinaesD,evmaroinesdtrcaotneteuxntdse, rasntadnddainilgy oliffer.elationships between music and the other arts, • A(thhueotimhroeirm'bspaoNsroett)ae.n:DcCeisocil.ouers. sfcirooedbtejreducctmks/uifnsiriceofuuigrshedtsaeirtl,hyseltiovceposlostirghrnae,tdsaitrroeenra)elpsorerseedntatnhdehnoowtethCe, cinoltohrisreclaasteestotonic

Activator and Hello C • Instructions: • Using call and response format, clap the Rhythm of the Day. • Repeat as needed. • Instructions: • Play Hello C video. Encourage your child to play and sing along with Mr. Rob.

Reinforcement • Instructions: • Introduce the C bell and corresponding solfege hand sign for 'do'. Allow your child to practice playing their C bell as well as singing and signing the solfege for 'do'. • Play 'Hide and Seek C' video projected for your child. When the C bell is shown your child will play their C bells and say \"Hello C!\" • Please note- Video may not be available at this time.

Movement • Instructions • Demonstrate how to chant on the pitch do, \"Hel-lo C\" after the pattern from today's core video. • Have your child reply by chanting \"Hel-lo <your name>. Ex. child chants, \"Hel-lo C\" and you responds with \"Hel-lo Ash-ley\". • Use instruments, shakers, scarves, or clap hands along with the chant.

Connections • Instructions: • List things in or outside of your home that are the color red or begin with the letter C.

Digital Interaction and Sheet Music • Instructions: • Your child will click on the objects to find and hear the C bells. • Please note, this content may not be available • Printable options are supplementary materials you might use or assign as desired. • Use the Hello, C printable • Practice following along with the sheet music!

Review Questions and Assessment • Instructions: • Ask the following review questions to gauge your child’s comprehension: • which color is the C note? red • what is the solfege word for C? do • what is the name of the Prodigies Music Lessons host? Mr. Rob • Have your child complete the assessment • Once completed, submit to be graded.

Hello C Part II K.L04 Lesson Overview • The purpose of this lesson is to help children solidify the color, sound, and letter for the note C. • Your child will also be exposed to hearing the pitch C against other pitches. Lesson Essential Question • How can a child distinguish the note C from other notes? Concepts/Objectives • Gain greater familiarity with the letter, color, and sound of the note C. • Hear the pitch C in relation to other pitches. Standards • MU:Cr3.2.Ka With guidance, demonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas to peers. • Author's Note: Musical ideas could be related to the 3 note composition on the treble clef. The nature of Hello C is that we are being introduced to the note C. The idea of introducing one's self creatively and uminnuiaqsniuceiamlmlpyuriossviceisaxalptltioaorlneeadnltisn(tbyClaean.mjop,fgirueitSaor,nkgawzohoe,ndMrurm. R)o. bD'surfirnigentdhsejionintehrliumdearoofuCndamthpefirbeoSnofinreg,tostufedaetnutrse\"tohoehir\"

Activator and Hello C- Guided Performance • Instructions: • Using call and response format, clap the Rhythm of the Day. Repeat as needed. • Instructions: • Play Hello C - Guided Performance video. Encourage your child to play and sing/sign along with Ms. Sam.

Reinforcement • Instructions: • Review the color and letter for the note C as well as the hand sign for do. • Play a pitch without allowing your child to see which pitch is being played and allow your child to play their C bells to see if the pitch that was played is also C or a different pitch. • Your child may need to be guided in determining if the pitch they heard matches the same pitch as the C bell; point out how the pitches are the same or different.

Movement • Instructions: • Place several C bell printables in a circle. Play a song and have your child march around the circle. • When the music is paused your child must stand on a C bell. Repeat as time allows. • If you have multiple children, include one less bell print out than there are children in the room; whoever does not stand on a C bell when the music pauses is out and is seated or goes to stand in the middle of the circle.

Collaboration • Instructions: • With your child; sit facing away from each other. Play either a C bell or another bell and have your child guess if what was played was C or not C. Let them know if they got it right or should guess again!

Performance and Track+ Sheet music • Instructions: • Play Hello C with the track or sheet music.. • Instructions: • Printable options are supplementary materials you might use or assign as desired. • Use the Steady Beet printable

Review Questions and Assessment • Instructions: • Ask the following review questions to gauge your child’s comprehension: • what bell is this (show C bell)? C bell • what is the hand sign and word for the note C? do • what is the name of the Prodigies Music Lessons host? Mr. Rob • Have your child complete the assessment • Once completed, submit to be graded.

Short and Long Part I K.L05 Lesson Overview • The purpose of this lesson is to help children identify short sounds against long sounds, as well as to reinforce the sound of the tonic. Lesson Essential Question • How can a child distinguish short and long sounds? Concepts/Objectives • Demonstrate a short note and a long note. • Distinguish short and long notes. Standards • MU:Pr4.2.Ka With guidance, explore and demonstrate awareness of music sceolnetcrtaesdtsfo(rsupcehrfaosrmhiagnhc/elo. w, loud/soft, same/different) in a variety of music

Activator and Long and Short Stars • Instructions: • Using call and response format, clap the Rhythm of the Day. Repeat as needed. • Instructions: • Play Long and Short Stars video. Encourage your child to play and sing/sign along with Mr. Rob.

Reinforcement • Instructions: • Play 'Short and Long Sounds' track and ask your child if they heard a long or short sound. Allow your child to repeat the sounds with their voices to help determine the length of each sound. • Repeat with \"Short and Long Images'; determine first if the picture displayed makes a short or long sound and then let the your child play a note on their instruments in correspondence with each image.

Movement • Instructions: • Give your child a beanbag, scarf, or other soft object. Demonstrate how to toss the object in the air to show both a long sound and a short sound. • Play a sound or note and have the students show the length of the sound by tossing their soft object.

Connection • Instructions: • Explain how words can also have different lengths similar to musical notes. Help your child think of different words that are long and short. • Ask your child if their name is long or short • Show a word (does not need to be one that your child can read) and ask what they think it's length is.

Social and Emotional Learning • Instructions: • Talk about the concept of time and how some activities take up a long time and others a short time. Allow your child to give examples of things in their lives that take a long time and others that go by quickly. • Talk about why we may feel like some time passes quickly (we are having fun) while other times it seems to drag on forever (we are not having fun or need to wait). Ask your child to give examples of when they find it most hard to have patience and wait for something and what they did to help themselves be patient.

Sheet Music and Assessment • Printable options are supplementary materials you might use or assign as desired. • Use the Short and Long Starts printable • Have your child complete the assessment • Once completed, submit to be graded.

Short and Long Part II K.L06 Lesson Overview • The purpose of this lesson is to help perform with long and short sounds using a slightly different pattern and the note D. Lesson Essential Question • How can your child distinguish patterns of short and long? Concept/Objectives • Discern patterns of long and short. • Demonstrate long and short notes using the note D. Standards • MU:Pr4.2.Ka With guidance, explore and demonstrate awareness of music contrasts (such as Atahhciugetthihvr/oihltoryie'wtssh,Nmaloonutfdredos/inm:stoDefborteao,acsWttaiomtoonpesb/Ddewiafiitsftheairsserendhvtiyfe)ftrehianrmleanvicitdv.aeaTrnohisdeatetmyxiepodllfeooamdriinocugfsoiccdsotifsnifnetealrreatecosnt,ttetidehsxefraoenmrinappfmoleeerrscforeoerdfmmacaaconinrncostesrtashsaetl.lstahmee but

Activator and Doo Wop D • Instructions: • Using call and response format, clap the Rhythm of the Day. Repeat as needed. • Instructions: • Play Doo Wop D - Guided Performance video. Encourage your child to play and sing/sign along with Ms. Sam.

Reinforcement • Instructions: • Introduce your child to the new note D and corresponding solfege sign and syllables, re. • Find things in your home and beyond that start with the letter D or are the color orange. • Compare the note D with our previous note C and ask your child which note they like best so far, C or D?

Movement and Connection • Instructions: • Listen to several different tones of varying duration. • Instruct your child to run in place when they hear a long tone and to hop in place when they hear a short tone. • Instructions: • Show a ruler and explain how a ruler can help us determine if something is long or short. • Show your child how to hold something next to the ruler and measure how many inches it is. Allow children to find things from around the room to measure on the ruler. Make a list of long and short objects