Wednesday, January 30, 2008

How was that?

Sometimes my students just leave me speechless.
Today Kamila saw the picture of a bunny in her piano book, and told me she had a bunny, and the bunny's name was Beethoven.
I asked her if she knew who Beethoven was, and she said, "He was the very best player of the piano." I was pretty impressed that a second grader knew who Beethoven was, but I don't guess I should have been surprised because her dad's a pianist himself. Anyway, I asked her if she'd ever heard any of the music Beethoven wrote, and she said "No, but he is friends with my Daddy!"

Friday, January 25, 2008

Interesting thought

Today during his piano lesson, I was using whiteout on the finger numbers in Efrain's book. (at this point I'd rather him focus on the note names than finger numbers)
He was fascinated with the whiteout, since it looked like the numbers were just disappearing, so he looks at me and asks, "So, if I put that on me I'll be invisible?"