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Emily Grossman

Social Skills

November 12, 2007 at 9:16 AM

"Do you see where Mi and Fa sit? They're right next to each other." I demonstrate the half step to my student on my own violin.

In response, she places finger #3 next to finger #2, and finger #2 immediately lifts and repositions itself a quarter step down, bypassing the lesson objective once more.

I instruct her, "No, try it again. Every time you put your third finger down, the second finger scoots away, and we don't want that. Mi and Fa are best friends, remember? See, Fa comes and slides in right next to Mi, with no space in between."

She plays the line of music again, and as soon as her third finger enters the picture, the second finger moves away, falling flat again.

I ask her, "Why does Mi keep scooting away from Fa?"

"Mi doesn't want to sit next to Fa today because he wet his pants."

From Terez Mertes
Posted on November 12, 2007 at 1:43 PM
What a bizarre reply! Love the descrip of the finger scooting away, tho. : )
From Anne Horvath
Posted on November 12, 2007 at 4:36 PM
Classic!
From Emily Grossman
Posted on November 12, 2007 at 7:00 PM
Aren't kids great?
From Tia Pietsch
Posted on November 12, 2007 at 11:34 PM
So cute...only not so funny today as one of my students did wet her pants...no joke! Got a little too excited about her computer theory lesson and forgot the bare necessities...

See you at next Messiah rehearsal! (Or not, since I don't get to play the fun stuff...)

Tia

From Emily Grossman
Posted on November 13, 2007 at 10:32 AM
Hi Tia,

Wow, don't sit next to that student! :)

Wish you were my stand partner.

Emily

From Tom Holzman
Posted on November 13, 2007 at 3:23 PM
As in the title of Art Linkletter's book, "Kids Say the Darndest Things." Wish I still had that much imagination. Law school drummed it out of me.
From Emily Grossman
Posted on November 13, 2007 at 6:38 PM
I don't know, lawyers can be pretty imaginative, too...
From Antonello Lofù
Posted on November 13, 2007 at 9:09 PM
try to glue together the two fingers of your student it would be helpful I suggest you cyanoacrylate glue

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