[HANASHIR:9875] Re: pre-school music

[Barton1320 <Barton1320...>]

Bella and Carol, thank you.  Although you were responding to someone else, 
your ideas have given me hope.  After my very first session teaching Sunday 
School music (seven 15-minute sessions, 5 songs each, and one school-wide 
dance-a-thon), I thought I would never talk again, much less sing.  Since my 
husband has one of those headless microphones, I'll start practicing with 
that.  Since I haven't even sung into a regular microphone before, I'll have 
to admit, it sounds a little intimidating.  My talents are more in the 
enthusiasm range than vocal quality.  But this sounds much better than trying 
to sing loud enough for all to hear.

By the way, I'd like to thank all of you for the help you offered when I 
first started putting my curriculum together.  I think our first session went 
well.  Fortunately for nervous me, the children already knew a few of the 
songs we sang.  I don't think I could have been as organized and prepared 
without your help and ideas.  And I'm pretty sure the children enjoyed it.  
During Tashlich yesterday, many of our budding songleaders came up to me and 
told their parents I was their music teacher.  Thank you all for taking the 
time to share your knowledge.

Linda Barton
Congregation B'nai Dorot