Neon Notes Friday, 10/10/14

Discoveries by Melana, Jackson, Margaret, Sally and Attia:

1]Easy piano/recorder version of familiar "Happy Birthday" song contains all 7 notes.

Part of group worked on possible 'Jingle" aka word change to become skit song:

Sort of got something going and asked the team to try to come up with lyric ideas too since I don't think any of us felt like it was rock solid (since we also discovered it is really hard to change the words when they are so engrained in your head!)

sketchy lyrics thought: 

Learning music is fun.

Reading music is fun.

sometimes it's frustrating

but it ca-an be done!

Ideas~7 kids with recorders can be all mixed up and 1 conductor trying to get them to play and the 9th team member moves them around/in to place order?

OR, that 9th kid actually sings the song in key, it becomes obvious that the notes aren't being read/conducted in the correct order and they have to sort it out, false starts, further corrections after soloist begins singing again~ 

2]Isaac and I found the following web address proved to have some great clip art options for possible Neon Note 'logo'.  Like with Robotic Readers, seems you could go off in different directions (Bryce vs. Will vs. Charlotte's ideas) so, we suggest any one that wants to, put together a little logo (and save it!) and vote on it as a group?  

3] In an effort to get more focused~ I tried to lead 3 (and then, 5) kids toward what we were trying to acheive, thinking then we could work backwards toward a possible game; mixed success with this...

All agreed that, thanks to visiting educators and beginning research, we have learned about various ways to meet that goal; generally: 1) sight reading 2) playing by ear 3) interval method but, in that discussion, it was clear even, in our small group, there were various learning styles: e.g.,  interval method made zero sense to one and Ms.Thompson's approach completely escaped someone else.  One of them needed to hear a piece first and then could start to make sense of the written music.

With all that in mind, one solution/game idea was something to help a person with dyslexia figure out what their learning style for playing music might be (without all the frustration, emotional trauma and expense of 'wrong' approaches) but came up with nothing solid for what that game might look like.

We need to clarify if the goal is playing music by what ever means you use to get there or if it is to actually learn how to read a piece of music, if the latter, should their solution focus be on sight reading music?  

Well,  there you have my input after Friday's FLL.  

Celie