If your schedule is anything like mine has been lately, you want to walk into October with your teaching materials as planned as possible 🙂 Your students will be thrilled at the prospect of anything Halloween related showing up in their lessons, but it doesn't have to be complicated! Below you'll find my favorites for …
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Free Piano Ninja Game to Kick Off the Summer
Are you using the Piano Ninja Challenge with your students this summer? The only thing better than the challenge itself is having lots of fun extras to keep the theme going 🙂 We'll be keeping our ninja theme going all summer, but today I'm sharing a fun and engaging kinesthetic game along with a banner …
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Spring Recital-In-A-Box
Spring recital season is here, and I have really enjoyed keeping up with what everyone is doing on the various social media and blog platforms I follow 🙂 The past year has been nothing short of difficult, and I love seeing that piano teachers around the globe are showing up, pushing hard, and, to the …
Bringing Easter to the Studio
I don't know about you, but Easter has snuck up on me this year! Spring is on it's way and everyone is looking for signs up bunnies, eggs, and crosses. And your piano students will be no different 🙂 I have long said that holidays are the perfect opportunities to shake things up and add …
Day 4: Note Sorting
Day 4 is here, and today’s activity will help your students with not only their note reading, but also their fine motor skills! Piano playing in general helps with fine motor movement, but some students need extra practice. Note sorting can be done in a variety of ways, but is always a good activity to …
Day 2: Kinesthetic Learning
It’s December 2nd, and today we’re getting our students off the bench and moving! Some of my students sit like perfect angels for a whole lesson. Others can’t sit for hardly five minutes. Either way, it’s important to engage our student’s whole bodies in their learning from time to time! Your kinesthetic/tactile students learn concepts …
Game-Based Learning: The Classics
I grew up in a game lovin’ family. We had a huge closet in the foyer of my parent’s house that had shelves lined with games. We had family game nights, hosted game nights with other families, and attended game nights at church. The holidays were (and still are) filled with competitive spirit. We pull …
Piano Possibilities 