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faithfully to guitar class every Thursday from September through June. One student even <br /> made sure that his after school reading tutor understood that"Thursdays are for guitar."And <br /> all of us had a lot of fun together playing guitars all year. <br /> Interestingly,our music teacher recently purchased a set of guitars and plans to add guitar to <br /> her curriculum next year.It seems a lot of kids have been asking to learn guitar this year. <br /> How could this project have been improved? <br /> I learned a lot about teaching guitar to children in the course of this project. I personally <br /> have a much clearer idea of how to adapt chords for small hands and how and when to <br /> introduce different types of strums. I also hope to invite guitarist friends to come and play <br /> and teach on occasion. Four of the five kids have been redistricted so I will definitely be <br /> offering this experience to a new group of kids next year. I would like to have more than one <br /> ongoing group, if at all possible. <br /> How did you share the implementation and/or the results of the grant with your colleagues <br /> and/or additional students? <br /> The guitar group performed in December at a school assembly.They have also performed <br /> for their own classes as a group. Several teachers have visited our guitar class and have had <br /> many positive comments. Our assistant principal observed one day and was very excited <br /> about all the good things happening in the group. I have had many conversation with <br /> classroom teachers about this guitar group. To a one,they have noted how excited my <br /> guitarlings are about coming to guitar class. Several people have told me that the kids look <br /> really happy when they are on the way to guitar and when they are in the guitar class.Our <br /> school psychologist told me she believes that the guitar class,and spending that special time <br /> with me, is what kept one child coming back to school and making progess. <br /> The children performed at the our school's end of year assembly.They played and sang <br /> Hokey Pokey and the packed auditorium sang along with them.It was fabulous. <br />