Remembering Dr. King on his birthday.
My latest retirement project is volunteer teaching ukulele to a mixed kindergarten and first grade class at a public school in Chicago’s Little Village.
Once a week on a Monday for about an hour.
More fun than anything else.
I’m an art teacher, not a music teacher. But I know kindergarten and first grade. I taught those kids for nearly three decades.
We take small steps: Which direction the neck of the uke goes. Strumming in a pattern together.
I bought a pack of little colored sticker dots to put under the bottom string, third fret so they knew where the C
Once a week on a Monday for about an hour.
More fun than anything else.
I’m an art teacher, not a music teacher. But I know kindergarten and first grade. I taught those kids for nearly three decades.
We take small steps: Which direction the neck of the uke goes. Strumming in a pattern together.
I bought a pack of little colored sticker dots to put under the bottom string, third fret so they knew where the C