The Piano Performance

 Excitement whizzed through Uxbridge today as the children got to explore music using a keyboard- Thank you Devin and Jo!

First, our pianist Cecelia played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star nd let me tell you, the audience was wowed by her performance! First we listened and then we even sang along.
She had such a great presence on the stage and then decided to share so all of our friends could have a turn.
The audience was pretty impressed about that. 

One by one, our audience members took turn to make their own composition and press the keys of the piano. Some pressed the keys softly, some harder. The tempo changed, we had fast and slow. We heard high notes and low notes.

The opening act in action.

Look at how wonderful our audience was!

                                                Sid held his head high as he used two hands.

    

                                    

                            Michael had the audience laughing with a fast beat. He called his song

                                                                             " Crazy!" 

                                                        Ted showed confidence as a performer.

                    Taylor made a lot of eye contact with the audience throughout her performance.

 Leyla was up next with a great song! Her song went from a low sound to a high sound as she walked her fingers along the keyboard.

Cohen found out that the keys on the keyboard were not the only thing to make a sound, so did the buttons that changed the sound of the keyboard!

Chloe had fantastic stage presence and sometimes even closed her eyes as she pushed the keys.

Look at Maddy's smile, she had a long and fun composition.

Austin enjoyed being upfront on the stage and also tried to do a similar performance to Michael as that's what had made him laugh so much!

  Scottie started out feeling a bit worried about how the keyboard worked but with a bit of a boost she was off like a rocket enjoying her song!

        

            Hazel's turn next as she used one finger up and down the keyboard! Go Hazel 

Eliza showed such focus as she took the stage! She was really watching which keys she was pushing and thinking about which keys she would push next.

                                            

This provided such a great environment for using some specific music terminology which some of our tamariki may not have heard before.

We practised being patient on the mat and clapping, showing respectful listening and audience behaviour. We also got to feel comfortable in front of an audience and we even talked about how we can bow after a performance.
 
Something tells me that this won't be the last keyboard concert here and that's music to my ears!