This morning I was asked to help with the annual "Honk, Squeak, Scratch, Boom" - a program put on every year for 4th-6th grade kids in the Rochester area who are looking to play in band or orchestra at school. Instructors are set up around the civic center rooms with various different instruments (wind, brass, strings, percussion) and the kids get tickets which they can use to choose which instruments they want to try out. They get to sit down with one of the instructors and have a short lesson/demo of how the instrument works, and then get to try it themselves. I was part of the saxophone group of course along with 4 other instructors.
Doing this for 2 1/2 hours really makes you appreciate the work teachers do every single day. I realize that as a teacher you get used to the set of students you have for an entire year, but it still must take a lot of energy. One of the other sax instructors is a middle school band teacher, and I told him that, and he said it does take a lot of energy, although it takes more energy with the beginners, teaching the ones who have a year or 2 of experience is actually a lot of fun.
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Ahh, that's why you had the Honk, squeak, scratch, and boom on your facebook.. I was wondering if Erin was doing something to you! :-)
Was good seeing you two today in the store.
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