Kindergarten, here we come!
Last week, with one more week of summer classes left at a daycare I teach at, I realized that I have known this year’s graduates since babyhood. (Theirs, not mine) It is amazing how much they have all grown up. From the squirmy, stranger-wary young toddlers who often cried when Miss Linda came to make music with them they have become confident young musicians.
Over the years they have grown to love being challenged by music games. One game they particularly loved sticks in my mind. Armed with a basket full of cards depicting different picnic foods we played a game that taught rhythm patterns and primed them for reading music notation. One of the kids realized that our goodbye song had places we could fit in our food names- so we did. Ever since then we have ended every music class by singing “It’s time to go now (hot dog!)…see you next week. (co-o-o-o-o-orn!)” inserting different words depending on the season or the unit being studied that week.
I’ll miss these kids but I know they are going out into the world as joyful musicians and I wish them all the music and happiness life has to offer.
