{"id":6719,"date":"2025-11-10T10:34:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=6719"},"modified":"2025-11-10T10:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:34:34","slug":"classroom-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2025\/11\/10\/classroom-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Classroom Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there music coming from the classroom next door?<\/p>\n<p>I can barely hear it. Wait. Can I? A high voice that periodically gets drowned out by the chit-chat in class (some of which is related to the test review they&rsquo;re supposed to be doing, some of which is &#8230; not). There it is again. I don&rsquo;t recognize the tune. It sounds classical. Or operatic.<\/p>\n<p>I walk over to the wall to see if I can hear it better.<\/p>\n<p>Andy looks up at me, waves his funny wave and points to the Sara sitting next to him. She&rsquo;s looking down at her desk where there&rsquo;s sheet music laid out with the test review is peeking out from behind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2025\/11\/i-nDxvm8R\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"sheet music\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2025\/11\/i-nDxvm8R\/0\/LP7HCkPdC35hsWPt76F7zffxkP87fCPpnFJZbkCbt\/S\/sheet-music-S.jpg\" alt=\"photo of the sheet music on her desk\" width=\"150\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She&rsquo;s quietly singing. Reading the music and singing. Practicing for a competition.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s a top-notch singer &#8212; likely going to state this year. And she&#8217;s quite good at math. With that review hidden behind the music, I guess we&#8217;ll see how things go with her test in a couple days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there music coming from the classroom next door? I can barely hear it. Wait. Can I? A high voice that periodically gets drowned out by the chit-chat in class (some of which is related to the test review they&rsquo;re supposed to be doing, some of which is &#8230; not). There it is again. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6720,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719\/revisions\/6720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}