Today, I want to introduce two lesson plans that I did this month. The theme I chose this month was colours and emotion. I felt that it was important to introduce the freedom and individualistic aspects of music first before we went into the techniques so that the children weren't overwhelmed with new material. 

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Music notes lesson:

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We first started off the day with a little introductory youtube video on music.

Then we introduced ourselves within the group and I asked them to write two songs or aspects of music they were interested in learning. 

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Then, as a class, we went over each music note on the sheet music and coloured them in with their identified colours. 

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I tried my best to keep all the students on the same note so that they would advance at the same speed, but it wasn't really successful. We then identified the two ways in which we can group the notes and memorize them.

"Every Good Boy Does Fine" (EGBDF) and "FACE." 

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We then coloured coded that and made sure that everyone wrote it down on their paper. I then went over to each student as they were finished to help them learn how to draw the treble clef. ( I remembered it being one of the most interesting parts of a music lesson so I incorporated it)

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And because they were so eager to play it on the piano, for the last 15 minutes, I moved on from my structured lesson plan and taught the children to recognise each group on the piano. 

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Compared to the pros and cons list I made last month, I think the pros really outnumbered the cons when I actually taught it to the children at Hope 7.