Making piano lessons fun and engaging!: October 2016

Sunday, October 2, 2016

Autumn Leaves

Happy Autumn! I love this season especially the cooler weather. This week my students will be matching leaves scattered around my studio to leaves that I will hand them. Yes, that's our dog in the picture chilling out on a Sunday afternoon.

I purchased a few packs of leaves created by Trend® so that I could make many different types of matching games. My students may be matching letter names to white notes, grand staff notes to keyboard locations, or musical terms to their definitions.

I also made a set of melodic/harmonic interval leaves. I purposely left off the clef signs because I want my students to focus on the intervals rather than the note names. I love creating games for my kiddos! They are a great way to to quickly test my students on what they should be studying in between lessons while keeping it fun. Until next time, piano blogger signing off........................

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