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Group Class Ideas

White Board Messages

November 29, 2005 by natalie 1 Comment

Every music teacher needs a white board. My students love writing messages on my white board. Here’s one that showed up today: “I want stay in your lessons till a’m 35 years old” This particular white board is one I picked up at a local teacher supply store. It’s magnetic, 24×36″ and has a grid […]

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Students Go Fishing and Have A Turkey Shoot!

November 6, 2005 by natalie Leave a Comment

Ten students gathered at the studio last Thursday night for our second group class of the semester. With Thanksgiving quickly approaching, it seemed like the perfect theme for this event. We began by discussing how Thanksgiving (defined as “giving thanks”) and music are linked. I read Psalm 137 as a perfect example of how the […]

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A Different Approach to Sight-Reading

November 2, 2005 by natalie 3 Comments

One of my objectives this summer in my piano camp for elementary students was to build better reading skills. In addition to other activities, I decided to try this different approach to note identification and intervallic playing. I emphasized using Cs as landmark notes and then playing intervals from those landmarks. (This is not geared […]

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Group Class Ice Breaker Game

November 1, 2005 by natalie Leave a Comment

Here’s a fun “get-to-know-you” game I’ve used at numerous group classes. I just change the statements in the boxes based on the makeup of the group. In each box is a statement with a line below it. When the signal is given, the students must find others who can sign their name in a box, […]

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Instrument Riddles

October 24, 2005 by natalie 8 Comments

Here are some cleverly written instrument riddles I came across on this website. (The website has a bunch of useable ideas related to instruments of the orchestra, but you have to sift through a pretty random layout to find specific ideas.) #1 We come as a pair, you could say that we’re twins. We’re shiny […]

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Group Class Travels Back in Time

October 3, 2005 by natalie 9 Comments

At our group class the other night, we traveled back in time to the Renaissance. I turned off all the lights in the studio and lit candles all around the room. As the students arrived, they heard the sound of monks singing Gregorian Chantsin the background. We focused throughout the class on how music is […]

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