Seimpi Lesson 3

The most adorable & sweetest girl on earth...to me that is :)

Waiting outside the classroom as we were there early.

Well, today's lesson was basically a recap of what we have learned last week: the notes like C D E F G in treble clef, finger placing on the keyboard, C using thumbkin, D using pointer, etc. And then there are also worksheets to be done, recalling the note values such as crochet, minim, dotted minim & semi breve & the # of counts accordingly.

Rachel was hyper today and was testing my patience. She didnt want to pay attention to what teacher Marcia was talking & kept on looking at her classmates. A number of times, i had to whisper into her ears that if she continued to behave this way, i wld walk out of the classroom. This method kept her on her toes for a few minutes but she wld resume the same behaviour within 10 mins.

I hv to emphasized to her the 2 blackbars & the 3 blackbars on the keyboard over & over again. She points them out as & where she likes. Is there an easier method to help her to remember?

And since teacher Marcia uses "before & after" each music note, i wld hv to start practising with Rachel along the same line. Eg: What is the letter before D? So the kids have to point to the letter C. What is the letter after D? The answer is E.

I dun think Rachel learns before & after in school, maybe not in this pre sch level. To them, all alphabets are straight-forward: A B C D E F & so on....

Yes, i also hv to remind Rachel (over & over again) that in music notes, the first note is always C, followed by D... A & B is only after G - C D E F G A B ( and then it starts with C again).

Note to self: Rachel is only 3 years old....remember. Cant expect her to digest something new to her in a short span of 3 lessons, yesterday being the 3rd. She is only a toddler & toddlers are known to explore more than paying attention.

And more importantly, this is only the basic music foundation. There's no gurantee if she wld like to learn piano down the road. As one mummy put it, at their age, there are many trials & errors.
If she's nt the type to sit down, then perhaps we can expose her into something more active, like ballet or gymnastics.

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In the evening, we went out for dinner with granny The kids called their granny ( my mum) last evening & "invited" her for dinner. We picked my mum up at about 7pm & the kids told her they wanna treat her to Macs. LOL!!!

We went for dinner along Changi Village, ordering simple foodstuff such as "king of ribs in coffee flavor", "slice fish soup", "fresh oyster mushrooms", '15 sticks of pork satay", "tofu with cereal" & "salad prawns"

Below are some pictures ( not actual ones) of what we have ate, js to give you a feel:

Fried tofu with cereal

Slice fish soup

Satay - pork pieces skewered on sticks, goes with onions, cucumber & ketupat.

Prawn in salad cream.

Coffee flavoured pork ribs.

Along the way home, the kids had a blast playing with their granny & were enjoying so much, they didnt want to stop. After dropping my mum off, the 2 kids were playing on their own & hb did a sharp turn at one bend that Rachel fell off the seat , onto the floor. Then it was a "scolding lesson" from Rachel to Dad. Luckily, the sharp turn was gentle. I didnt even realise Rachel had fallen off the seat till she gave her dad a scolding. Opps!

Photos: i was nt in the mood for any photo taking session which i kind of regretted now. Rachel was wearing a pretty piece of patchwork dress in the evening which i found in her grand mother's drawer. Nobody knew where this dress, along with 2 other equally sweet dresses came from. Everyone thought that i was the one who brought them.

Hehe...finder's keepers! Let me see if i can get a chance to post them here.