Patriotic Paragraph Contest

This new competition is open to everyone. Choose a Patriotic or classic American folksong to research and write a paragraph about. Included in your essay may be who wrote it, when it was written, why it was written, what it is about, interesting facts about the song and/or what you like about it. Entries are due the end of April. Every participant will get 200 bonus minutes added to their practice total. Winners at each level will receive additional bonus minutes as follows:

Primary Level -100 bonus minutes
Level One - 200 bonus minutes
Level Two - 400 bonus minutes
Level Three - 500 bonus minutes
Level Four - 600 bonus minutes

So, have fun and I look forward to seeing your entries :)

Valentine's Competition Winners

Congratulations to the following winners of
February's Valentine's Competition:
Primary Level:
First Place--Quinn Burton with 241 minutes
Second Place--Dominic LaFrance with 135 minutes
Level One:
First Place--Gianna LaFrance with 428 minutes
Second Place --Terran Smoker with 389 minutes
Level Two:
First Place--KellyAnn Tandarich with 1149 minutes

Second Place--Kayla Smoker with 665 minutes
Level Four:
First Place--Peter Herlihey with 325 minutes
Second Place--Mary Beth Tandarich with 319 minutes
Great job all of you!! Keep up the great practicing!

March Update

Well, this month didn't go quite as originally planned. I'm now just starting back to lessons and will try to post the winners of the Valentine competition as soon as I collect everyone's minutes. Thanks to all of you for your patience and prayers and a thumbs up to my students who are still practicing away :) Little Nathaniel Warren McCoy is growing (up to 4 lbs :) and doing well. He probably will be in the hospital a couple more weeks and lessons might be kind of off and on for a while. I've missed all my students and look forward to getting back in the swing of things again.

Student of the Week 4

This Student of the Week really managed to surprise me. Liam just moved up to Level 2 and the first song I assigned him was very difficult. But I came back the following week and found out not only had he practiced a lot, he listened to everything I told him, learned the notes without writing them in, learned all the correct finger numbers and could play The Star Wars Theme very well. Keep up the great work, Liam!