Christopher's independent play has become very organized and focused in the last week since Colin, Christopher, and I started attending music classes again.
With ankles adorned in jingle bells and a bag of music (printed out chord sheets and sheet music "with real notes, please, Mama") slung over his shoulder, he strums a C chord (the only chord he knows!) as loudly as he can and encourages his students to jump and sing and clap at the top of his lungs. He shouts "good job!" and "nice jumping!" to his imaginary participants and carries on the most earnest one-way conversations.
When it's time to wrap up the class, I hear him say, "okay, guys, it's time to say goodbye!" and "thank you for coming to my music class!" and he strums and sings a goodbye song. Then, he ducks out of his room to let me know that he's headed, "to the next class" and we tune up his guitar for his next stop.
I'm thinking that we need to restring his instrument to accommodate his left-handed strumming style and make it easier for him to at least learn G7 and F and few more chords beyond that. He'll be delighted when he can accompany himself. So much fun!
