Our Tuesday music lesson went well, but we ran out of time with our older group, because their field trip to the Printing Press ran long.
The younger kids worked on learning a song for the final program, and then we talked about the musical staff (our tools to compose) and then we split up into two groups, and one played Musical Composers Bingo while the other composed their own musical phrase (I wrote a "question" phrase, which ends with a high note (la or 6 on the scale), and they wrote an "answer" phrase that ends on the low, first note (do or 1). Then the groups switched.
The older kids didn't have enough time to compose, so they composed on Wednesday and we kept them together for bingo.
So for Wednesday, The younger kids will talk about Professional Musicians - Singing Actors and Opera Singers! They will, among other things, watch the song "Do, Re, Mi" from the Sound of Music so that we can then work on their solfege. Fun stuff!
After swimming, all the ladies met for tea. It was a great time to get to know the moms and Elsie (the school coordinator) better, and to pray with and for all of them.
Later in the evening, we adults watched a movie called Babies. It was cute, and an interesting study of the first year of life in Mongolia, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Namibia (here in Africa). It was cool to see what things are so different, and yet, what remains the same across cultures.
And then I got to talk to one of my good friends on skype. Loving our great internet here for that!
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