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It’s Time for Christmas Tunes Bingo!

November 19, 2024 by natalie Leave a Comment

We had our November group class this week, so I decided it was time to pull out our Christmas Tunes Bingo game again! With our practice incentive theme this year (The PUZZLEMAKER), I built listening pages into the assignment books, so we’ve been using them at each of the monthly group classes this year. This […]

Filed Under: Fun Extras!, Game Ideas, Group Class Ideas, Listen and Love

Rote Favorites in the Piano Studio this Fall

November 12, 2024 by natalie Leave a Comment

If you’ve been around here for a while, you know that I’m a huge proponent of using rote teaching with all of my students. Here are a few favorite pieces from this fall: How do you get an energetic 8-year old boy who wants to play everything lightning fast to appreciate playing beautiful musical sounds […]

Filed Under: Fun Extras!, Repertoire Suggestions, Videos

Music Theory Crossword Puzzle from Doug Hanvey

July 9, 2024 by natalie Leave a Comment

Doug Hanvey has been a guest blogger here before. Check out his posts on Fearless Arranging: Teaching Younger Students to Arrange and 8 Things You Didn’t Know About Piano Technique. Today he is back with a fun summer activity for you and your students! Ready for a fun summertime music challenge? Do you know what […]

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Practice Incentive Brings Unusual Blessings

April 23, 2024 by natalie Leave a Comment

Drawing inspiration from Proverbs 11:25: “Whoever brings blessing will be enriched,” I included an element in this year’s practice incentive theme where students could opt to leave a “Blessing Card” in the destination they were leaving in order to give the next arriving student an opportunity to earn extra coins. This has been a huge […]

Filed Under: Fun Extras!, Practice Incentives, Teaching

Recording Piano Practice with Fruits

April 2, 2024 by natalie Leave a Comment

One unexpected way that I often see my students’ personalities come out is in their assignment books. We have a custom assignment book that correlates with our practice incentive theme each year, and one of the elements is that they always have to record what they practiced and on which days in order to keep […]

Filed Under: Fun Extras!, Practice Incentives

New Christmas Tunes Bingo and More Music Games!

November 20, 2023 by natalie Leave a Comment

One of the tried-and-true games in our studio is Music Bingo. It’s a simple game that works for students of all ages and levels and effectively reinforces musical terms and symbols. I often pull it out for group classes. A while back I began pondering the possibility of creating a Bingo game that would help […]

Filed Under: Fun Extras!, Game Ideas, Group Class Ideas, Resources

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