Piano Lessons

Last week our 2 older children started piano lessons!  They are 11 and 10.

I know many children start earlier. Their piano teacher started at age 7!  But it worked out best for us to wait.

Their teacher is also their favorite babysitter, Miss Sarah.  She is 17 now and very talented.  She knows our big girls well.  She is willing to come to our home for lessons.  So it is working out wonderfully.

Naomi and Lydia are practicing their songs faithfully.  Naomi says the songs are WAY too easy, but as I said...it is important to start at the beginning and then build up from there.  Naomi and Lydia have both spent quite a bit of time playing Piano Wizard, a computer game with a piano keyboard. So they have some familiarity with moving their fingers rapidly on a keyboard.  But they haven't learned from Miss Sarah before, and Miss Sarah has things to teach them that are entirely new.

I'm excited about the girls adding music to their education.