Hi Chamonix


I realised that after three over months of teaching with notes reading, some other children became heavily relied on the book, which means that they now unable to play songs by memory. And they absolutely have no idea when to play notes with the sharp key or natural key. The teacher has now moving in a faster pace. We now have 2 more songs to go to complete the book 1.

Regards,
OCEAN

Hi Buds

Why are you always awake? Are you suffering from some form of sleep disorder? Please take care!

Hi San76
Just now my dh call my office and scolded me for not waking up my ds and say good bye to him before I left home for work. My ds was screaming and crying and hitting my dh at the other end of the phone. I thought he suppose to be a grown up boy already and he had not have enough rest during the weekdays. Somemore he told me yesterday he was rated no. 1 (best behaviour) in class. I just want to tell that you have to find a way to balance your life between work and family.

Regards,
OCEAN

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My ds is in P1, but could find thread for P1 English.
Just to share what he did wrong in his term 1 test.
So far, 2 marks were deduct on the following points:

1. He must put all the books _______ the shelves.
The answer is \"on\" but he chose \"into\".

2. Show and tell
Have checked with him why he did not score full marks.
He said the teacher asked him a very difficult question,
ie. why did your father buy you the toy, and he didn't know how to answer.

I received my boy term test paper yesterday for parent signature.

Just to share the type of mistake that he made.
So far only one question was did wrongly:
2 is _____ less than 6.
The answer is 4 but he wrote the answer 8.
He asked me why his answer was wrong and I told him "less than" means lesser, and lesser means the answer must be less than 6. He still blur blur…

Hi mommyNg/ Hi Chamonix


how old is your son (and his group)?
Most of them will be reaching seven in a few months time, including my son.

I still don't understand why he would suddenly teach the group by reading notes.
The parents of this group could have been relying on him too much. Guess this is the only way to help those parents to coach the child.

Maybe you can seek the teacher’s advice on what can be done to help your son to sustain his interest?
To sustain interest is one thing, but he has been rubbing and blowing his nose every now and then that it becomes a phobia for me to even ask him to touch the violin.

In any case, it’s a good thing you exposed him to music since young. Even if he decides to stop, it’s likely he might pick up the instrument later on.
In fact I have no regret even if he has to stop the lesson now . The lessons have provided him with a strong musical foundation. I'm glad that he was being taught with a start of Alphabet Notes, rather than Do Re Me. I tested him last night if he still can remember the Alphabet notes for Minuet 2. He sang the whole song for me. Then I just remind him the key signature of this song, F# and highlight the D sharp and D natural notes for this song. That's the only thing I can do for him so that he can still survive in his violin class.

Now, I am looking forward to his keyboard class starting soon which is in the curriculum of music lesson of his school this year for all P1 and P2 pupils. I am so excited! Hope that I can learn something from him.

Hi Chamonix


Is your son taking group lessons? It sounds awfully long for Book 1.
His group started off with 8 students. But now has a total of five only. One girl having sibling in the same class and mommy too stress, so dropped out. One boy unable to take the criticism of the teacher and stopped coming after he broke down and cry. Another boy, dropped out last Dec probably because unable to catch up and every week got scolding from the teacher.

My son started 1-1 lessons last June and finished Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the 4 variations within 4-5 months. He just performed Twinkle Twinkle in the Suzuki Students' Graduation Concert yesterday. Perpetual Motion will be the next song he's learning. (The teacher has been focusing on Twinkle Twinkle practices for the last 3 weeks). For him, the teacher expects him to learn a new song every 1-2 weeks. As for note reading, his teacher has yet to start teaching him. At the moment, he prefers his students to concentrate on learning to play by hearing.
Oh! I now understand why he suddenly started teaching this group by reading musical notes already. Probably because most of them still unable to play the whole song correctly even the teacher had already taught them. Teaching by hearing will not be suitable for this group of children any more as the song has became more difficult to play.

If your son is keen in learning violin, I suggest you to enrol him for 1-1
lessons.
He is not keen at all though he was the one who requested for it. What interest him is fun. Group lessons are fun, esp. involving all parents. In fact I have stopped him from going to violin lesson for one month since Jan this year, and after that he was the one who refused to go for the lesson. It was about coming to the middle of 2nd month after he stopped attending the lesson that one day, I dragged him into the class while we were in the vicinity, without bringing the violin along. Then he realised the teacher has changed his method of teaching that he became interested and hence back to the class again.

Learning and progress will be much more in line with your son's ability. Although my daughter started just 1-1 lessons last oct, the teacher actually wanted her to participate in the Twinkle Twinkle performance yesterday. (Too bad my girl isn't the hardworking sort, so I didn't train/drill her hard enough to match the CD speed in time for the concert
My boy had his Twinkle performance last year, It was a good experience. But this year I didn't want him to perform because he would be back to the twinkle group again.
As for 1-1 lesson, I do not want to stress up myself as I have no more stamina due to health reason. While other children are still struggling, his is able to catch up easily for the time being, at least for book one, but will need to work hard again when he proceed to book two, if he is still willing to continue.

Don't give up hope on your son yet. Find a good teacher and things might
change for the better.
As you have mentioned earlier, this teacher is great but very strict! By now you should have already know who the teacher is :). It was because of his strictness that my boy try to excel previously, and it was also because of his strictness that my boy refused to turn up for the class again. It was because of his strictness, the girls in the class took turn to cry almost every week. In fact two of the parents in his class has elder siblings taught under him, and because of his strictness, they put their younger one under him again.

Last but not least, if I have chance to go back to the past, I will put my boy under him again. It is a great lesson for us parents too.

And yes, the rosin we are using was made in Germany, cost about $5.50.

My boy has been taking suzuki violin since July 2007. Based on the current pace of 2 months per song (excluding the Twinkle Twinkle Little star which took 9 months to complete (Time for the concert!), I suppose he will only be completing the Suzuki Book One by March 2010 next year (another concert time???). The problem is, he has completely stopped practicing his violin since last Sep 08.

His reason, he has a serious case of sinus problem, and the rosin make him worse. Before that, he managed to try out all the songs in Book One (I wrote the a b c d e notes for him to read and managed to figure out the upstroke, downstroke and continuous stroke of the songs, though not sure right or wrong) and his favaourite song was songs no. 17 Gavotte.
While he practiced, he amazingly memorised all the notes for all those songs.
Since this year, the violin teacher started to teach the class to read the score (Minuet One), its been 3 months already. No more playing songs individually in the class. All played together in a group and a very big mess. I think the teacher already give up hope on this class. Good one stop practicing, weak one even worst. Worse still, not even one child in the class able to read the score, and my boy is the worst out of all, because his eyes has never been focus on the book.
Sigh!

Hi Tweet and Barney

Thanks for the information.
I guess my ds’s school based on overall result to determine who’s account to create first because one of his classmate with highest score in both English and Math has not been given the blog account yet, probably because of unsatisfactory result for Chinese MT.
But can tell majortiy of P6 pupils have blog accounts.