Showing posts with label Violin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Violin. Show all posts

Friday, November 19, 2010

To do list

Ruth wanted to have the same type of "to do list" as Rachel had - so I got hers done last week. Rachel's are on the top and Ruth's on the bottom (where she can reach them).
Her "Art" this week. A picture
for Dad. She also ended up with
lots of stickers on herself. :-)
It was lovely to see how this week she took over the job of doing the chooks from Rachel (the red lables). She takes them any scraps, fetches the eggs and checks that they have enough food. She is such a big girl already.
Other items on her list are "Tell" when she tells me about the story that Rachel has read to her, "Music" for violin practice, "Computer" - a friend lent us a couple of new games so she is enjoying those and learning a lot. And then she has some items that are not for everyday. I have made enough for every day but for starters we are going to have it our goal to get to them at least once a week. "Baking", "Art", "Read" - at this stage it's just work on the alphabet, "Math" - at this stage just work on recognising the numbers or doing some counting or adding, "Sew" - she loves sewing and I want to try and get her something to do every week and "Clean" - it's nice for her to have a record of packing up or cleaning that she has done.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

1st violin lesson


I phoned the school music teacher this morning as I had heard that she played violin. I was very pleased to hear that she gives violin lessons. She asked if we could come and see her today so we headed down before Ballet and Ruth got her first lesson. I also learnt a lot about caring for the violin and bow. Ruth was a little shy but will get over that quickly I am sure. She is very keen to practice every day. I am impressed with the sounds that she is already getting after just one lesson. Unless you have tried to play a violin and know the screeching noise that can be produced - you may not appreciate how good this is for the first day.