An honest Kindergarten opinion
This week, a particularly inquisitive Kindergarten student told me he thought that the activity I was leading was boring! The class was echoing 4-beat patterns following a silly rhythm chant. We talked about how that could be rephrased in a kind way, then I said that it might be more interesting to do individual patterns. When I went to give the “this is boring” student an individual pattern, I was prepared for an eye roll, but instead he created his own pattern! It was not perfect by any means, but I was taken aback by this unprompted response and I am excited by the windows into my students’ individual musicianship that pattern instruction will allow.
In other Kindergarten news, one student asked me where my bed was this week. She was shocked to learn that I did not in fact live in the school building, but at an apartment out of town. :P
