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 […]
This Week in Photos
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 […]
Music Bingo Cards
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 […]
Announcing…Pajama School!
[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 […]
This Week in Photos
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 […]
Incredible Resource for Catalogued Piano Repertoire
The FindPianoWorks website is a must-use tool for every piano teacher! I can’t believe I didn’t know about this sooner. FindPianoWorks is a very user-friendly database search tool that includes repertoire from three series of leveled anthologies: Masterwork Classics edited by Jane Magrath, the Kjos Repertoire series, edited by Keith Snell, and the Celebration Series, […]
