OK your not a music teacher but you are teaching young minds to appreciate music and how much enjoyment they can get from it. So lets just say youāre a great teacher, who thinks out side the box and your students will remember you forever. Everyone has that special teacher they always remember and I think you will be her to most of your students.
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The spirit of Jack Black is alive and well 
I was always trouble in school 
Iād be singing Sil-Vi-A
ā¦ and clapping on the two! 
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Isnāt that how Dr Hook sang it?
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Itās quite unlikely theyāll remember me, but if our learning experience moved them emotionally that will be there with them forever, stored into their brains, without them probably being aware of it.
Hereā s a copy-paste from an article on the web:
āAdults rarely remember events from before the age of three, and have patchy memories when it comes to things that happened to them between the ages of three and seven. Itās a phenomenon known as āinfantile amnesiaā.ā
Itās very special how they look at me while weāre strumming and I smile and nod approvinglyā¦I try to keep the volume of my strumming and singing loud enough so that they can hear it but at the same time quiet enough so that they can hear the effect of their fingers on the strings and feel part of something biggerā¦itās like a new experience for them and they seem like eyes and ears are wide open! This has quite a wow effect on the other teachers being around too and when the little tune is finished the applause and praise is bigā¦like theyāve been real musicians for a little while! They just strum or pick the individual open strings and I have no idea how this objectively sounds but I know it must feel good from what I read on their faces and the magical silence once the last beat has been played. Itās also so interesting to observe different approaches to the instrument: someone does only upstrums, someone only downstrums, someone prefers to pick the individual stringsā¦someone rocks with both down and up strums as if he/she has been doing it all his/her life.
Iām myself experimenting what works and what does not.
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yes kind of!
Thereās no right or wrong way obviously, only a shared rule, we clap and count how many syllables we find together (in a way that will be useful when theyāll learn to write)ā¦I could actually ask them how they would like to sing their names without the recorder given notes, might be a bit difficult for the youngestā¦
Meā¦I would like to sing my name like Si-i-i-i-i-i-il-via from low to high and back to low 
Btw who is Dr Hook? @Socio
Dr. Larsenās alter ego
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