Chugging away

Things have been progressing along.  Lessons moving forward.  The kids have been enjoying music class.  They are learning about Chords.  They are loving philosophy and discussing what is the mind.  In discussion group we have been talking about how to take the discussion to the next level.  They all get how to wait their turn (most of the time) and they kind of understand asking a question about a topic.  Now we are asking them to take it to the next level.  It is not enough to wait your turn.  You have to be an active listener.  That means really hearing what is going on and making sure your comments are on topic.  We demonstrated building with legos and how to bridge ideas.  We used bubble blowing to show how all the bubbles at once is very pretty but it is difficult to see all the bubbles when everyone is blowing at once.  We also used music to show how when you arrange the notes you get a song.  The favorite quote of the day....there are no wrong notes, just notes played at the wrong time.