Two Weeks Left of the Bingo Challenge!

I've been hearing about lots of grandparents and babies/toddlers who have heard some violin playing. Many 100 charts are leaving lessons and being returned. There is listening in the car and before bed time. Students are asking for help and are helping others at school and at group class. I love everything that I am seeing and hearing. What wonderful Suzuki students!

You all have a bit of an extension on your Bingo cards as they are now due at the Halloween Group class on Tuesday October 28th. We will find out the winners the week after.

Here are a few suggestions to help you all complete your Bingo Cards!

Check out the Don Wright Faculty of Music Concert Series or their main page HERE with for free concerts and student recitals at Western University. Just show up and enjoy. You can see some great things at these recitals!

Also, any performances at school counts towards concerts as well. Maybe a music group plays for the school in the auditorium, or the school band plays, or a dance group performs or the choir performs. You may count any of those as a concert.

When we listen for 3 hours in a day, this is background listening. It's not finding 3 hours to just sit and listen. Put it on in the morning getting ready for school, listen in the car on the way to and the way home from school. Listen during dinner, listen during homework, listen before bed. Have you reached 3 hours yet? (3 hours while we are sleeping does not count toward this). See who is the first to remember to turn on the CD when they get home from school. Pretty soon it will be habit.

Many lessons are available to observe! Come early for your lesson or stay late to watch and learn from someone else. Don't have extra time in your schedule but your children come back to back for lessons? Agree ahead of time that a few minutes will be spent observing quietly the siblings lesson rather then reading a book or doing homework, etc.
Know you'll be in the area and have a few minutes to spare? Let me know and we can arrange an observation time. By the way, you are always welcome to do this. Sometimes seeing another lesson and watching a lesson from a different perspective may give you new ideas or inspiration about your own situation. We all do incredible learning through observation. It's so simple yet often overlooked.

I hope everyone is completing some walk/run boxes this weekend! Anyone read any good books lately? I hope everyone is having a wonderful Thanksgiving!