It was Spooktacular!
pamelamyers | October 29, 2018
The High School’s band hosts an event called a Spooktacular where the elementary kids are invited to see the instruments, hear how they sound, and even play a few. Afterward, there is a short concert. Sam couldn’t wait to go. She is awfully musical these days! The kids were invited to show up in costume too so Sam wore her Halloween costume, a cat. Right away she found a few classmates, Natalia and Gia.
The only instruments the kids could really try were string instruments, but I guess that makes sense. You can’t have a bunch of kids putting their mouths on other instruments! Watching Sam with a bass was so adorable. The thing is bigger than her just about!
A violin is much more her size, but I think she wasn’t too sure about holding it up under her chin like that. She had fun playing though.
We would love for Sam to join the school band, but in elementary there are not as many options and guitar is not one of them. She’d have to choose something else, which for Sam would be hard. She does love playing, but getting her to practice has been tough. I don’t know if she would be ok with learning two instruments at the same time. We’ll see this spring when she would have to decide. Who knows by then?
One little side note on our night. This pencil dispenser was in the lobby and Sam and I assumed it did not work. We put money in and, voila! Out popped a freshly sharpened new pencil. Sam loved this thing! She hopes that they put it in the new high school when it is built. I hope so too. It looks like a relic, but it’s a damn cool relic and they need to keep it. A pencil vending machine? Gotta love it.
