Beginner Piano Lessons - How to Play "Happy Birthday" on the Piano

Did you know that Happy Birthday is the song that is sung most often, world wide! It covers a range of 8 notes or an octave. To play it on the piano place 2 markers (like coins) either side of your end notes. This will make it easier to find your position.

The white keys on the piano are named after the first 7 letters of the alphabet - A B C D E F G.

Our song starts on G. To find G, find a group of 3 black keys in the middle of the piano. G is the white key between the 1st and 2nd black key. Place a marker on the note to the left of G. This is F. Now find the G, 8 notes higher. Place a marker on the note to the right of G. This is A.

Beginner Piano Lessons - How to Play "Happy Birthday" on the Piano

Because you will be playing both the high and low G, the low G will be written as a capital - G; the high G will be written in lower case - g.

Here are the notes for Happy Birthday, played on the white keys, between G and g.

G G A G C B
G G A G D C
G G g E C B A
F F E C D C

You could play the song with just one finger, but it is better to use one finger per note. Piano fingering is the way the fingers are numbered. The thumb is 1, the index finger is 2 and so on. Place both thumbs on Middle C. The song starts with the 4th finger of your left hand on G. Enjoy playing the world's most popular song.

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Homeschool Math Lessons Made Easy - The Secrets of Learning - Understanding Math Games

Math Games

Games can be very effective tools for teaching math to elementary students, especially if they are designed properly. Those who are familiar with the game of Cribbage know how quickly you can learn to add numbers up to 15. A game that is fun enough to be repeated over and over again can give a student a chance to practice their skills. If played enough, these skills can become automatic. Learning basic skills for math can be fun rather than a chore.

What makes a good game? There are many games that we soon grow tired of for obvious reasons. People who play Tic Tac Toe for more than a few minutes soon realize that it is very simple and it ends up always being a tie game. Snakes and Ladders is often played once or twice, but players often grow tired of the simple randomness of the game. Cribbage and chess are games that never lose their appeal. They are played often, by many different people and are even taken to the level of tournament competition. These games have commonalities and can be applied to classroom math games.

Homeschool Math Lessons Made Easy - The Secrets of Learning - Understanding Math Games

One thing successful games have in common is the element of strategy. If a player cannot make any choices that change the outcome of the game, they don't really become involved mentally. A player that needs to make a decision such as which cards to keep or which chess piece to move becomes an active participant. Imagine a child playing a video game that doesn't react to the controls. Essentially, it would be like watching TV mindlessly. If you want you want a student to develop a strong mind, let them develop strategy.

Another key factor of a successful is the element of chance. Although a Scrabble player may have the dictionary memorized, a score is dependent on the letters that are randomly chosen. Even though it is a game of skill, the element of chance evens out the playing field. A player may be outmatched, but he or she still feels like they have chance to win.

Games should also be challenging. Games that are too simple often get put on the shelf. The game of golf is a perfect example of what a game should be. It takes a few minutes to learn the rules of the game but a lifetime to master it. Simple rules get players involved and make it easy to recruit new members. The challenge of trying to master the game keeps players coming back.

There are also playability factors of a game that make it enjoyable. If the timelines are unrealistic, like a game that takes 4 hours, players will get bored. If you need eight players for a game, chances are the game won't be played. If there are fourteen pages of rules, ten players won't make it past page one.

From experience, games are a great way to encourage math skills. When students are finished assignments early, they can play while others finish. Students can take part in tournaments with these games, keeping track of games, scores and points for and against, further developing their skills. They can also make it a part of homework, strengthening parent/child relationships at home.

Though we have developed many games for the classroom, it is easy for us to create more to focus on a specific areas of math since we understand what makes a good game. Addition, fractions or geometry can be turned into simple board games with the right mind. Time goes into its design, but the hours of practice and enjoyment with math it brings is invaluable.

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10 Interesting Facts About Flamenco Dancing

Flamenco dancing is a very popular dance throughout Spain and it reflects a lof of Spanish culture. Below we look at ten facts involving Flamenco dance.

1. Flamenco has long been considered part of Spanish culture, but its actual origins can be traced back to Andalusia. Extremadura and Murcia as well as Latin America and Cuba have contributed greatly to the development of several forms of flamenco.

2. Flamenco is considered a unique combination of native Arabic, Andalucian, Islamic, Sephardic, and gypsy cultures.

10 Interesting Facts About Flamenco Dancing

3. The period between 1869 and 1910 was known as the golden age of flamenco when flamenco music and dancing developed at music cafes (or cafés cantantes) for public performances. Tickets were charged for these performances, which grew in popularity throughout the region.

4. Flamenco music is an intrinsic part of the flamenco dance experience. Flamenco music styles, called palos in Spanish, are classified according to basic rhythmic pattern, chord progression, mode, geographic origin, and form of stanza. More than 50 different palos flamenco exist, yet some are hardly ever performed.

5. Flamenco dance is called "baile," while a flamenco dancer is known as a "bailaor" (male) or "bailaora" (female).

6. Some forms of flamenco dancing allow for improvisation by the dancer. Inspired by the rhythm and beat of the guitar and the handclapping from the audience, the bailaor erupts into spontaneous movement to match the mood of the song. This lends a unique quality to the performances of each dancer.

7. Flamenco dancing can be traced to the era of the Roman Empire through the writings of Pliny, Strabo and Martial who mentioned the Cadiz dancing girls and their use of castanets. (Castanets are a percussion instrument used in flamenco and other types of dancing to produce a series of clicks and rattles.)

8. Classical flamenco lovers are critical of the modern twist that flamenco has taken and believe that the performances are too staged and commercialized. Traditional flamenco dances are performed to small audiences of no more than 20 people and are never scheduled, whereas modern flamenco arranges scheduled performances for very large audiences.

9. Flamenco festivals are held in Andalusia in the summer-time, and the locals often break into spontaneous flamenco dancing at the various pavilions set up for the occasion. This is often the purest form of flamenco that can be experienced today.

10. Flamenco dancing costumes vary quite widely. Women are usually attired in black, red, navy blue or white dresses with many layers of ruffles and high heels. They wear their hair in a bun and place a rose behind their ear. Men wear black or red tuxedo undershirts with stretchy pants for freedom of movement. Modern costumes tend to be more varied on the colour spectrum, including colours like light blue and bright pink.

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Science Lessons for Grade 1 on the Five Senses

Many teachers agonize about planning science lessons for Grade 1. They think that the students are too young to take part in science experiments. This is because they associate science experiments with using chemicals and Bunsen Burners. At this grade level, there are many experiments you can do in class with the students that are perfectly safe and do not put the students in any danger.

For example, it is easy to plan a lesson related to using the five senses. A taste test, or an experiment where the children are blindfolded and have to identify certain foods by the way they taste, smell and feel, is perfectly acceptable. The only precaution you would have to take in this type of lesson is to make sure that none of the children have any allergies to the foods you plan to bring into the classroom.

To teach the concept of using the sense of hearing, it is quite easy to make a tape recording of certain noises and see whether the students can identify them. In order to evaluate the lesson to see whether or not the students have achieved the objective, you can have them draw a picture to tell what they learned, retell it to you or have them write a sentences in their journal or learning log.

Science Lessons for Grade 1 on the Five Senses

If you wish you can also have the students create noises of their own using materials that you bring in, such as scraping a comb over glass or the sound of chalk on the chalkboard. Many of the activities that you use with science lesson plans dealing with sound will also achieve the objectives for your music curriculum as well, so you might want to work with the music teacher on this section.

Some of the outcomes that you need to address in Science lessons for Grade 1 are:

1. Students will be able to identify the five senses

2. Students will be able to demonstrate ways that materials can be used to alter their smell and taste

3. Students will demonstrate ways we can use materials to make different sounds

4. Students will describe ways in which materials can be changed to alter their appearance and texture

5. Students will demonstrate how each of the senses helps us to recognize, describe and safely use a variety of materials.

You can teach all of these objectives using fun activities to keep the students interested. You have to think of the age of the students and realize that these activities are very simple, yet relevant to students in Grade 1.

What kind of activity could I use to teach Objective 3 - Students will describe ways in which materials can be changed to alter their appearance and texture? You have to keep in mind that you don't have to get the students to do all the experiments. You can do some with them watching and then ask them questions about what happened. For this objective, you can take a piece of paper towel. Pass it around to all the students so that they know what it looks and feels like. Soak it in water and then show the result. Students can immediately see how the appearance and the texture of the material have changed.

When you are teaching Science lessons in Grade 1, you should always look for appropriate children's literature so that you start the lesson off with a story to peak their interest.

"How Paper is Made" by Arthur Lockwood is a good book to use for this lesson because it describes the changes in the appearance of a tree from the time it is cut down until it is made into paper.

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