I love teaching adults! We have such fun & find it a different way of teaching.
This morning I've been teaching Lyn, a retired lady with an extremely busy social & family life. She also has finger nails & early-arthritic fingers so I have to work a way around that.
The Skaters Waltz is a piece that she's learning at the moment - a beautiful piece that I remember my grandmother playing on the piano when I was a tiny girl. Such a graceful piece of music & so joyful!
The grace....& the perfection....is hard to master in The Skaters Waltz. As with other students, I often try to create an illusion to aim for when creating a story through music. With The Skaters Waltz, I can't go past my memories of Sonja Henie on the old movies of my childhood. Who remembers those beautiful old pictures??
My instructions to Lyn are..........don't give her a wet backside or make her hat fall off... LOL ;)
6yo Miss M loves creating artworks for me while her big sister Miss R has her lesson. These drawings were the efforts of last week & are double-sided on the one piece of paper.
They are so sweet & I see the development of a child looking carefully at her world.
For those who can't read 6yo writing, the top says, 'Illustrated by Mia. These are penguins.' The bottom says, 'Illustrated by Mia. This is a boat.'
