For Travel Tour (a.k.a. Group Class) #5 last night, one of our activities was what I dubbed, “The 1-Minute Documentary Project.” The idea was inspired by the fabulous Videolicious App, and it turned out to be a lot of fun! I started by coming up with a handful of music-related topics, like a composer or […]
Group Class Ideas
Art Projects Guaranteed to Get the Creative Juices Flowing
Every once in a while you come across a true treasure trove on the internet and wonder how you ever got by without it. I don’t consider myself an artist, but when I came across this collection of hundreds of free art projects and lesson plans on the Blick website, my brain went into overdrive […]
Check Out This Loud and Fun Group Class Game
This Musical Shout It Out game on the Music Teacher Talk blog looks super fun! And very loud. Which means my students would probably love it! 🙂 I am always look for new game and activity ideas to include in my regular group classes and this one definitely fits the bill. I’m excited to try […]
Monday Mailbag – Group Class Assignments
I’ve never done group lessons before, but I’d really like to try one. When you do a group lesson, what do you do about students’ individual assignments/songs they’ve learned the week before? And what do you assign them for the next week? Or do you think of group lessons totally differently than individual lessons? In my studio, […]
Mixed Messages
In last Friday’s post, I mentioned that we played a game at our group class called Mixed Messages. Students had to translate Italian music terms and then write the definitions to complete English sentences. All the students were split into two teams and whichever team finished all their sentences first won a Free Travel Pass. […]
Travel Tour #3 – Including Out-of-State Students via Skype!
Last night was our third Travel Tour of the year, going along with our theme: An Italian Intrigue. For the first time ever we included a couple of my out-of-state students via Skype. It worked wonderfully! Here’s a brief video recap from the occasion: Activities for the group class included: Mixed Messages – students had […]
