The Joy of Being a Teacher

Our Fiddlestix ensemble performed last night at the Zion Lutheran Church in town. We had some real challenges...........we lost a few fiddlers, and our percussion and keyboardist couldn't come. Our one last fellow sprained his hand a few hours prior in a football game.

But we pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps..........and it was the best performance yet! Better than the one 20 hours into our work together. The spirit of the event came upon us and we played our hearts out.

Our newest member, Brooke L. asked just yesterday morning if she could join us.......and she played a terrific rendition of "Go Tell Aunt Rhody".

Every step that these students take.........every new technique, every song perfected makes my heart soar.

I am grateful that I have a profession that I run to each morning, and if it were not for my family I wouldn't leave at night. May everyone someday find something that they love to go to every day.

Music and Math Play Work Together!

There is no longer any doubt that there is a significant link between early music instruction and cognitive growth in certain other "nonmusical" abilities such as math, memory and spatial-temporal reasoning. In fact, studies focused specifically on music for young children even suggest that these cognitive gains increase according to the number of years that students engage in active music learning, and even that the younger children when they begin, the greater the gains will be!

Free e-book The Impact of Music on Mathematics Achievement by Deanne Kells M.A. Download your copy here

http://www.kindermusik.com/classes/downloads/ImpactOfMusicOnMath.pdf

Fiddlers are fiddling again!

Saturday at September 12th at 6:30 p.m. we are playing at the Zion Lutheran Church of Wallingford at the intersection of Pond Hill Rd (Wallingford) and Scrub Oak Road (North Haven) . Bring a picnic and join us!