Benji's first week of summer camp ("Classical Kids" music camp at Music On The Hill)

Benji's first summer camp was a music camp called "Classical Kids," which he attended with one of his best friends, Jacob.  He spent time working on his piano skills and also got some violin lessons!  At the end of the week, the kids did a short concert.  I was on a daycare trip with Tamar and Daniel but Aaron amusedly reported that "it sounded exactly like what you'd expect from a bunch of eight-year-olds who had five days of piano and violin lessons." 

 

The camp was held at a local, family-owned music store called Music on the Hill that is two blocks from our house.  The store is on the ground floor and lessons for Benji's camp were held upstairs on the second floor.  The first two pictures below are of the individual practice rooms (not where the kids got their camp lessons, which they did in a group).  The second two pictures are of the downstairs (the main store) -- in the final photo, you can see that they were getting ready to hold a group music lesson for older kids.  It's an amazing resource to have so close to us and I anticipate that we'll be going there often!  They even have music classes for very young children, so Tamar and Daniel will undoubtedly be there at some point in the next year or so.

 

Here's a video from Tuesday of Benji's first day playing the violin!

 

--Victoria