As has been our tradition for many years, we launched our new year of piano lessons last weekend with the September Surprise!
Each returning student had a piece ready to perform for the rest of us we played a fun rhythm get-to-know-you game (in keeping with our rhythm theme for the year!), and we had the much-anticipated revealing of this year’s practice incentive theme: Beat the Pirates!
In between each of the student performances I played select folk tunes from the fun collection Old MacDonald Had the Blues by Rebekah Maxner and had everyone see if they could guess what song it was. Especially the younger siblings got into this game and were eager to call out the tunes they recognized!
We concluded the evening with a tasty ice cream bar! Thankfully, the evening wasn’t quite as surprising as last year, and we had a wonderful time with all the studio families catching up after summer break and anticipating a great year ahead!
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