Listen to “Hot Cross Buns” on the CD and sing along with your student. Clap three times after you sing the words “hot cross buns!” These claps show waiting places. Listen to “Up We Go!” on the CD and sing along with your student. Sing without the CD and add three claps after the words “go” and “row” to show those waiting places.

iano: keys C, D, E Use the keyboard chart to �nd and play C and E on either side of D. Move the keyboard chart to di�erent locations on the keyboard and play C, D, and E in those places.

Look at “Hot Cross Buns” on page 9 and ask your student to write three Xs after each “hot cross buns!” to show the waiting places. Sing “Hot Cross Buns” with claps at the marked Xs. Play the song as your student sings and claps; then have your student play as you sing and clap. Alternate singing the letter names with singing the words. Play “Hot Cross Buns” together with your student.

Many children will use several �ngers to play, while some will choose to use only one �nger to play. This is �ne. One-�nger playing allows your student to focus more closely on the location and sound of each particular key. Ask your student to play “Hot Cross Buns” using his/her left hand too.

Follow the same procedure to play “Up We Go!”

reativity: Make the Dogs Bark Game

Ask your student to �nd all the doghouses on the piano and, by playing every D, make each dog in every doghouse “bark.” Ask your student if the barking dog is large, medium, or small. Play as many Ds with your student at the same time as possible and listen to the sound of all those dogs barking.

Pick only two dogs and listen to the sound of their barking in unison. Find the sound of two dogs bark-ing that your student likes. You could try two little dogs together, or two great big dogs, or maybe one giant dog and one tiny dog. Ask your student to choose which bark will be louder and which will be softer. Whose barks will be fast and whose barks will be slow? Why are they barking? Maybe the mail carrier is coming, so they bark louder and faster for a little while. Maybe they want to go out to play. Make the dogs bark the way you have decided. Switch and make each dog bark in the opposite way. Which way sounds better?

omework Color the homework pictures of the bears standing tall and squatting down. Practice �nding high and low on the piano and place each bear on the correct side. Play all the keys in a row from low to high, and then play in a row from high to low. Find every doghouse on the piano and count how many there are. Sing, then sing and play “Hot Cross Buns” and “Up We Go!” Sing the words as you play, and at other times sing the letters you are playing. Ask a parent to sing and clap where the Xs are marked while you play. Play all the Ds you can �nd for the Make the Dogs Bark Game.

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