Wow! My students rocked the house last Friday night at their winter recital. They did such a wonderful job. I couldn't be more proud of them! Now, on to more note ID games......I created this game "Note Rollers" close to 5 years ago. It's a great game to reinforce quick note identification. I bought a table top rubber piano from Toys R Us ® a few Christmas's ago and it has been such an asset to my piano program. My students get a kick out of this flat rubber piano. They think it's the coolest thing ever. I use it for quite a few activities. If you are interested in purchasing one of these, I'd suggest looking for sales now around the holidays. I bought mine for half off the original price (about $13.00). I wouldn't roll it up as they suggest since it actually damages the keys. Keep it flat at all times. I bought a few foam dice from a local teacher store (although I've seen them in craft stores as well) and adhered staff notes on each face of the dice using packing tape. The great thing about this game is that it too grows with your students. They could start out by simply locating letter names A-G on the piano and progress to simple staff notes all the way to ledger line notes as well as sharped and flatted notes. What they're supposed to do is roll the dice (either 2 or 3 of them) and play what they've rolled on the rubber piano. I have them read the dice from left to right so that I can keep track of the notes played. Then they roll again and again until time is called. They need to correctly locate at least 20 staff notes within 2 minutes and 10 letter name notes in one minute in order to win the game. This is also a great way to assess what notes your kiddos are having difficulty with. It is quite possible that while the students are rolling the dice they come up with the same note a couple of times during the game and that's fine with me. I still count it as a point. Until next time, piano blogger signing off.......
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