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| Don't cry, baby. |
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| Big Sister Ariana |
April 26, 2011
Annabelle
April 24, 2011
Our 3rd great grandchild
April 22, 2011
Piano students
Just when I thought I was too old to teach any more, I suddenly find myself with 6 piano students! They are all granddaughters and each is unique in her approach to piano study.
Jessica is basically self taught, in spite of having two fine pianists as parents. But she has inherited their musical sense and a good intellect to enable her to learn quickly. She is motivated and practices diligently so it's a pleasure to see her progress each week. I also gave her some pointers in leading music and she subs as chorister in Relief Society, putting everything I've taught her into practice.
Sydney has taken piano lessons from another teacher so she came to me with the basics. She is bright and capable, but not overly interested in the piano. She would rather be reading! I love watching her beautiful hands play.
Maia is a beginner at age 7. She is totally motivated and wants as many songs to learn as I'll give her. She is catching on quickly and has good rhythm and musical sense.
Rachel took lessons from me a few years back but lost interest because of the drudgery of practice. This time she is flying through the same material, reviewing and going on to more difficult things. She is picking it back up well and seems to enjoy learning it this time.
Robin has been asking for lessons for some time so we finally decided to strike while the iron is hot. She is very motivated. Having the desire to learn is half the battle. She is doing great.
Ann Marie is just starting out at age 9. Teaching her is like trying to tack down a sunbeam. But once she gets focused she does fine! She likes to make up songs of her own and she can name any note on the keyboard.
Jessica is basically self taught, in spite of having two fine pianists as parents. But she has inherited their musical sense and a good intellect to enable her to learn quickly. She is motivated and practices diligently so it's a pleasure to see her progress each week. I also gave her some pointers in leading music and she subs as chorister in Relief Society, putting everything I've taught her into practice.
Sydney has taken piano lessons from another teacher so she came to me with the basics. She is bright and capable, but not overly interested in the piano. She would rather be reading! I love watching her beautiful hands play.
Maia is a beginner at age 7. She is totally motivated and wants as many songs to learn as I'll give her. She is catching on quickly and has good rhythm and musical sense.
Rachel took lessons from me a few years back but lost interest because of the drudgery of practice. This time she is flying through the same material, reviewing and going on to more difficult things. She is picking it back up well and seems to enjoy learning it this time.
Robin has been asking for lessons for some time so we finally decided to strike while the iron is hot. She is very motivated. Having the desire to learn is half the battle. She is doing great.
Ann Marie is just starting out at age 9. Teaching her is like trying to tack down a sunbeam. But once she gets focused she does fine! She likes to make up songs of her own and she can name any note on the keyboard.
April 11, 2011
Gymnastics
So a while back Ken got some tickets to a gymnastics meet at OSU. Robin was intrigued and decided she wanted to learn how. She checked out a video and took notes. She tried to do the moves. Then she went to her Dad and said, "I can't learn this without a coach. I need someone to tell me if I'm doing it right." So he checked around and found a class on campus taught by OSU students. Robin and Ann Marie are taking it together. I went to one of the classes.
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| Annie was bouncey and cheerful throughout. She paid attention to the teachers. |
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| This one looked like it would hurt your back! |
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| Robin was graceful. |
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| Robin was put in the next level up she was doing so well. |
April 10, 2011
Robin is a teenager!
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| Robin is now a teenager. Watch out world! We were thrilled to be invited to her birthday party. |
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| Rachel made her beautiful (and yummy) chocolate cake. |
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| Robin got some nice gifts--a white board to keep track of her goals for young womens, a good book, a CD, some fingernail decoration stuff, and some lectures about Shakespeare's plays. |
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| What will Grandpa do when the third one arrives in a couple of weeks? |
April 7, 2011
Academy for Lifelong Learning
Eldon and I joined the Academy for Lifelong Learning sponsored by OSU for retired persons. They have a variety of classes. Last week Eldon went to one on forestry he came home excited about.
I went to one today on libraries given by a retired OSU librarian named Karyl Butcher. It was most interesting. She talked about libraries BT (before technology) when card catalogs were used. Now each library's on-line catalog can be personalized to the library. She thought this causes a loss of serendipitous browsing, but I think you can get side tracked as easily on-line and you could in the card catalogs.
She thinks the OSU library continues to be the date hub of the University and she often wonders on a Friday night, "Don't you have some place to go?"
She says nowadays librarians have to be part programmers and web designers (which our family librarian certainly is). Someone asked about applicant pools and she said there are 50 to 60 applicants for every opening. She said librarians don't get paid well. And she thought there was a disconnect between library schools and what is really needed. Librarians are information providers and they must know how to deal with people.
She used terms like "aggregating information" and "enlightened lay persons" and "triaging information" and "multi cultural databases." And although young people think it's cool to read on a kindle, books are gadgets that shouldn't be thrown out because they never run out of batteries, the resolution is good and the tactile sensation of turning pages is pleasing. But she also recognizes that people need on-line information for current research.
Evidently some libraries have cleared their shelves of books and are entirely electronic. I hope that doesn't happen here. Hurray for books!
I went to one today on libraries given by a retired OSU librarian named Karyl Butcher. It was most interesting. She talked about libraries BT (before technology) when card catalogs were used. Now each library's on-line catalog can be personalized to the library. She thought this causes a loss of serendipitous browsing, but I think you can get side tracked as easily on-line and you could in the card catalogs.
She thinks the OSU library continues to be the date hub of the University and she often wonders on a Friday night, "Don't you have some place to go?"
She says nowadays librarians have to be part programmers and web designers (which our family librarian certainly is). Someone asked about applicant pools and she said there are 50 to 60 applicants for every opening. She said librarians don't get paid well. And she thought there was a disconnect between library schools and what is really needed. Librarians are information providers and they must know how to deal with people.
She used terms like "aggregating information" and "enlightened lay persons" and "triaging information" and "multi cultural databases." And although young people think it's cool to read on a kindle, books are gadgets that shouldn't be thrown out because they never run out of batteries, the resolution is good and the tactile sensation of turning pages is pleasing. But she also recognizes that people need on-line information for current research.
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