Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion Experiences of HG, EG, PG children learning music

Yeah, she didn't learn the staff (sigh). She learned A-G-D-E or whatever the few most basic notes are on a recorder and their corresponding fingerings. To be fair, she was taught recorder in K and 1 at her first school. When she writes songs down that she wrote on recorder, she will just write D-D-G-A-E-A-D or whatever. You're right, though, that this would be easy enough to teach. In fact, for all I know she does get instruction in this in elementary school music.