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October Update (It's time for that already?!)
Last month I was excited to post. This month, my main thought is, "I have to blog?! What am I going to blog about?" I can't even rely on my photos to jog my memory. Because it seems I went back to my typical self and forgot to take pictures of most of the activities. (Sorry, if I have any look-at-the-photos-first readers.) I mean, my piano teachers never took photos. At least, not while I was watching. Maybe we'll spotlight online lessons for today. Online Lesson Fun I can't claim being an online expert yet in the piano teaching world. But I will share with you some of my favourite things about it: I don't have to Disinfect. Absolutely. Everything. before my student shows up. Or worry about what happens when I've just finished disinfecting and one of my siblings decides to come in just then. Or freak out over the universal question: "Are my hands clean enough?" If the studio's messy, all I hav...
September Update: Castles, Princesses, and other Epic events
My first month of teaching this school is over. 😠September was a blast! In-Person There's something thrilling about the medieval era. A child doesn't have to know what "medieval" means to be mesmerized by the whole knights-and-princesses thing. And it's not just children. *sheepish grin.* I'm not the only grown-up out there with this penchant, am I? So I figured a castle theme would be a pretty intriguing way to kick off the new school year. Welcome, one and all... to the castle. My teenage siblings were a real help in pulling this off. Most of that Playmobil up there belongs to my brothers, with one of the two princesses being my sister's. They also loaned me a cape of theirs, and a perusal of online castle classroom ideas 'sparked' the construction-paper torches. I was going to make a banner, too, and cardboard towers, but I ran out of time. :( Of course, the castle theme demanded some castle games. There was the M...