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Thursdays @ Portage View
Hello MusIQ Club families! Welcome to our new students and welcome back to our returning students. We had a great first class! Level 1A’s (Ella and Olivia) Today we learned about high bird notes and...
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Week 2 at Portage View
Great work this week Portage View! Down By the Bay was a hit! What great singing voices you have. Level 1A’s (Ella and Olivia) Today we talked about high sounds and low sounds (pitch) and short sounds...
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Thursdays @ Portage View
We had another great class this week. We started by listening to Mr. Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata while we ate our lunches. We talked about what we heard, and what we thought about while we were...
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Week 4 @ Portage View
Class this week was a brand new experience for a lot of our students. We didn’t use headphones, or even do a lesson with our famous composers. Instead, we started with a new callback song called My...
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Week 5 @ Portage View
This week while we ate our lunches, we learned about Mr. Bach. One of the components of MusIQ Club is music history, and we learn about the composers who teach the Children’s Musical Journey lessons....
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Week 6 @ Portage View
This week while we ate our lunches, we talked about composers. We reviewed what we had learned about Mr. Bach, our teacher for 1A’s, and then we learned about Mr. Dvorak and Mrs. Beach, the teachers...
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Week 7 @ Portage View
This week while we ate our lunches, we talked about the final worksheets in our workbooks, to be sure everyone was comfortable with the concepts taught this semester. We also reviewed which solo each...
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Week 1 @ Portage View
Welcome back to MusIQ Club! So excited to have you back! We had a great first class today. Everyone came back ready to learn and have fun, and we did. Everyone completed their lessons, had time to play...
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Week 2 @ Portage View
Hello everybody! Sorry for the late post. We had another very productive class this week. During our floor time, we reviewed the Musical Alphabet (A B C D E F and G) again. Brianna moved on to the...
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Week 3 @ Portage View
Another awesome week! Today during floor time, we learned about the full name for the piano – the pianoforte. We learned that piano means soft and forte means loud, and the piano was different from the...
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Week 4 @ Portage View
Hello Portage View families! Week 4 was great… we are really enjoying having the piano in the multipurpose room. Today we introduced the ensemble piece for the Open House – Ode To Joy. The student’s...
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Week 5 @ Portage View
Hello Portage View families! This week we continued to work on our ensemble and solo pieces for the open house, as well as working through our individual lessons. Thank you so much for continuing the...
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Week 6 @ Portage View
Hello again! We had another busy week. We reviewed grown up notes, note values, and the parts of the grand staff. We completed our lessons. And we worked in Concertmaster, doing letter name callbacks...
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Week 7 @ Portage View
(from May 17th) Hello families. Have you ever sat with a child when they read for the very first time? That moment when you realize that they got it… Today felt like one of those moments. As we sat on...
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Week 8 @ Portage View
Hello families. Week 8 already! Hard to believe. We did our final CMJ 1 and 2 lessons today. Everyone worked through their lessons with ease. It is so exciting to walk by and see hands in Middle C...
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