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Piano Performances on a Monday

Piano Performance Venue

Piano Performance Venue

Last month the boys took part in their music school’s piano recital for the year. This year was extra special as it was the first time that Doggie boy is taking part in the recital. In previous years only Monkey boy got to perform.

Doggie boy getting ready to perform

Doggie boy getting ready to perform

Doggie boy and his teacher performed the song “Hot Cross”. I didn’t manage to record the whole song but here is a snippet which I managed to capture.

Doggie boy is very reserved by nature so he doesn’t really like performing to an audience. However we are trying to make him open up more and enjoy performing as he would need to hone this skills for show and tell and oral in school.It was a good experience for him and I’m sure in time to come he will be more open to performing.

 

Monkey boy waiting for his turn to perform

Monkey boy waiting for his turn to perform

Monkey boy played the song “The Swan” by Saint-Saens. Unfortunately I didn’t manage to record this whole song too as the camera auto cut off the video I was taking a few times. Not so sure what that happened but I guess DSLR cameras are not really cut out for taking video.

He is a pro when it comes to performing as he knows the motions which he has to go through. It was great to see him performing so confidently.

Here is the song ” The Swan”. Listening to this song brings back a lot of memories for me as I performed this song on the violin during my teenage years as part of the school’s String Ensemble

Were you into classical music too?

Weekend Reflections: Encouraging Creativity in Kids

Tiger girl on her  plasma car

Tiger girl on her plasma car

Tiger girl turns 31 months old in a few days time. This few months her love for singing songs and nursery rhymes have increased by leaps and bounds. She does have an array of different songs which she sings but as of thee two weeks the favourite song of the week is “Wheel on the Bus”.

It can get really annoying an irritating having to listen to her singing the same song more then 20 times a day.  To make it more pleasing on my ears I have been encouraging her to think out of the box.

Why don’t we change the lyrics to the song?

Besides people do you think we can have animals on the bus too?

Asking her such leading questions got her thinking of what she can add to the song.

She has been doing alterations on the lyrics of the songs since I started questioning her.

Now the song has been changed to the following.

The Wheels on the bus (Tiger girl edition)

The Wheels on the bus go round and round,

Round and Round , Round and Round.

The Wheels on the bus go round and round all through the town.

The bubbles on the bus go Pop, Pop, Pop

Pop , Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop,

The bubbles on the bus go Pop, Pop, Pop, all though the town.

The Monkeys on the bus go ooh-ohh- Ahh-Ahh,ooh-ohh- Ahh-Ahh,ooh-ohh- Ahh-Ahh,

The Monkeys on the bus go ooh-ohh- Ahh-Ahh, all through the town.

The bells on the bus go ting -a-ling-ling, ting -a-ling-ling,ting -a-ling-ling.

The bells on the bus go ting -a-ling-ling, all through the town.

The pig on the bus goes oink oink oink,oink oink oink, oink oink oink,

The pig on the bus goes oink oink oink, all through the town.

The END!!

Do your kids change the lyrics of songs too?

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