Piano Recital

For Father's Day, we had a piano recital for the grandparents. I stopped taking outside students when Nathan started kindergarten but have continued teaching my own kids. Nathan only just started with the basics at the beginning of summer.  So we put on a recital to give them an opportunity to dress up and perform their music. And Nathan gave Corey a paper tie that he colored in primary. 

Preschool

I decided to do preschool this week anyway. I have such a small class and it's in my home that I can keep super clean. Plus, I had my older kids home to help. Today, being St. Patrick's Day, we made these fun rainbow pots of gold. Eliza came up with the craft. I had such good helpers today. And one of my students didn't come because with the extended spring break from school, his family stayed in Arizona another week. It was his birthday this week, so we made a video of singing happy birthday to him and I sent it to his mom. I hope we can resume things normally in another week.

I also continued piano lessons this week with anyone who would come.  I had seven students out of my  thirteen who did not come.  I told them I would still be teaching as long as people would come.  I guess some music teachers are going to virtual lessons, like using Zoom.  I don't want to do that, it doesn't seem like it would work well with beginning students.  But we'll see what happens.

Piano Recital

I started teaching piano lessons last year to my nieces and nephew and then in the fall, decided to expand to teach other students. I limited my days to two days per week (plus the day that my brother's kids come) and got about ten students. I held a recital for the kids to have a chance to play in front of an audience.

Here are all of my students.  They range in age from six years old to thirteen.  Travis and Eliza are included.

Here are the programs that Westley made.

The rest are pictures of some of the kids playing the piano: Travis, Sakura, Maggie, and Eliza.  I didn't get my nephew A.J. for some reason.  The last picture shows the audience.  We held the recital at our church building in the primary room.  I wish I had access to a grand piano (can't use the chapel), but this will do for now.