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Archives for October 2008

Studio Policy Website

October 14, 2008 by natalie Leave a Comment

Susan Todd has revamped the Studio Policy Website and just went live with it a couple of days ago. In addition to studio policies, there are a number of other teaching ideas and resources that any teacher, but especially beginning teachers, will find invaluable. When the members from our Pno-Ped-L e-mail group first started discussing […]

Filed Under: Business, Teaching

Music Memory Game

October 13, 2008 by natalie 1 Comment

Last Friday I hosted our local music teachers association meeting at my studio and we had a great time sharing game and activity ideas. In the course of talking with one of the other teachers, I was reminded of this Music Memory game that I made up years ago for a small beginner level music […]

Filed Under: Game Ideas, Group Class Ideas

This Week in Photos

October 10, 2008 by natalie 2 Comments

Chord Sharing Prompted by one of the suggestions given in the improvising workshop I attended at the state conference earlier this month, I pulled one scale block from the jar (D) and instructed my high school student to see how many different chords she could come up with that contained the D. She went through […]

Filed Under: Game Ideas, This Week in Photos

Music Bingo Cards

October 9, 2008 by natalie 2 Comments

As I was working on a project this evening, I stumbled across this site that has a variety of music bingo cards. In the music category, they have: Famous Composers, Musical Instruments, Notation, and Orchestral Instruments. Just download the Bingo Printer software and you can immediately start using the pre-programmed selections. However, for $21.95 you […]

Filed Under: Game Ideas, Group Class Ideas, Resources

Announcing…Pajama School!

October 8, 2008 by natalie 1 Comment

[I know some of you have been following along via my Journey to Self-Publishing blog, but for those who haven’t, I figured I would post this announcement here. And then you’ll know why things have been so quiet here on this blog this week!] After many hours of writing, researching, praying, and collaborating with friends […]

Filed Under: Personal

This Week in Photos

October 3, 2008 by natalie Leave a Comment

Whack It! This was Emily’s third week of lessons and we were drilling the names of the keys on the piano. She really struggled with this last week, so I had come up with this Whack It! game to play during her lesson. However, she had worked so hard during the week that she bumped […]

Filed Under: Game Ideas, This Week in Photos

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