Okay, I admit this is actually last week in photos, but at this point I’m just proud of myself for actually getting these posted… 🙂 On Monday morning, shortly before my first lesson of the day, I decided to try a new game for the week – Chord Spelling Bee Challenge. I grabbed several plain […]
Teaching
Test Yourself on These Fun Musical Quizzes!
It took me six minutes and three seconds to do it, but I finally named all the composers of these famous pieces in this fun quiz. I was about four minutes into it before I realized that the countries were listed beside each blank (duh!). And then I had a brain freeze on The William […]
Around the Blogosphere
Here are a few interesting articles and other tidbits I’ve come across this week that I thought I’d share: sfrack reminds music teachers of the importance of Painting Pictures Through Music. I’ve started doing this more with students and it’s such a great teaching technique! Jon Dittert over at Music Teacher’s Helper Blog shares a […]
Happy Thanksgiving Week!
I took off this week of teaching and am looking forward to spending time with my family and enjoying the Thanksgiving season. I am so thankful for the privilege of running an independent studio and for the wonderful families and students that are a part of it. God’s blessings are abundant and it’s always good […]
This Week in Photos
Continuing with the theme of devising games utilizing flashcards, I had Naomi try a sight-reading/composition game. I held the set of flashcards upside down and had her randomly draw four cards. Then I allowed her to arrange them in any order she chose and play the pattern of notes under either the second or third […]
Teaching Piano Pieces by Rote
Doesn’t everyone teach a few of those students whose technical facility and musical talent far exceeds their music reading ability? I have found that such students love learning really cool sounding pieces that are quite a bit harder than what they could actually read from the printed music. One of my favorite pieces to teach […]
