My five and seven-year-old music students gave me a thrill today. Teaching their little fingers to play the C scale and learn simple pieces of music on the marimba and keyboard is what I expected, but what I hadn't anticipated was their ability to create their own compositions.
Today we ruled lines on paper, learnt to draw the treble and bass clefs, and then coloured in notes to create a melody, which they played on the marimba and then the keyboard. To teach children is always a privilege and thrill but to give them the space where creativity ignites and then blooms, this is something else altogether.
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