Some families spend summer vacation going to parks or taking road trips. For some reason, I decided this summer would be a great time for our kids to learn a variety of things. In addition to giving them math and writing prompts each morning and enrolling them in swim lessons, today we began a new adventure that has been on my wish list for a long time: music lessons.
Joy took Suzuki piano lessons as a kindergartner and had a great experience (here she is at age six playing for her teacher and fellow students at a mini recital), but halfway through first grade we had to stop taking lessons for a variety of reasons. I had always hoped we be able to start them again someday, and this summer I finally felt that we were in a position to start looking for another teacher.
After interviewing a few Suzuki piano teachers in our area, I found one in Catonsville who seems like a good match for our family. She has high standards but also a warm personality, and she finishes her lessons with games that teach musical principles. Daniel and Anna are excited to start piano lessons, but Joy is actually on the fence--not about whether she wants music lessons, but about which instrument she wants to study. She enjoys playing the piano, but she also wants to try something different like the viola (a bigger version of the violin which plays lower notes). She likes the challenge of trying something new, and the fact that the viola seems more unique than the violin or piano (fewer people have heard of it, and even fewer people choose to study it). I'll keep you posted on what she decides. :)
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