I love teaching piano. A lot. I love it more than any other job I’ve had, except being a mom. We waited quite awhile for our children to come to our family. After 5 1/2 years of marriage, we adoped a beautiful baby girl. When she was 4 years old, we brought home an 18 month [...]
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Since so many students are naturally competitive, I made a chart to track their progress on the Piano is Fun note naming game. Students are not competing against anyone, but it sure does motivate them to do the lessons so they can get a sticker on the square. This chart will print on 2 pages of paper, and [...]
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Head on over to Laura’s Blog for the chance to win a Composers Activity Pack. It looks like tremendous fun, and is a great price even if you don’t win the drawing. Good Luck!
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If you haven’t seen it yet, head on over to Susan’s Piano Teacher Resources site. She is posting some wonderful Christmas songs for pre-readers and primer level students. I already have these printed to use with my students this week.
I have also done up a few Christmas songs, hopefully with a few more to come [...]
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This past summer I wanted to do something a bit different for our practice incentive. I decided to do a Summer Ice Cream Challenge. It was really quite simple. I printed ice cream cones and ice cream scoops, cut them apart, and laminated them so they would last for future use. For each 10 points [...]
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Mix up the rhythms from eight Christmas carols, and have students place them in the correct order. There is an assortment of rhythms from easy to more complex for many levels of students.
I also did up rhythms for two Hanukkah songs – My Dreidl, and Chunukah. For some odd reason, I made up these rhythms [...]
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Ahh, more procrastination. My student teacher has [...]
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These are the result of some serious procrastinating on [...]
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