Hi Folks! As promised I'm giving an update on the Twisted "Twister" piano game my sibling students played this past week. If you'd like more details on how I made this work for piano lessons, please read the post "Twisted Twister" prior to this one. That's Mabry and Chase in the photo above! With the feedback I got from my students these are the improvements I made:
-I enlarged the pieces so that they could see them better
-I went back to using the "Twister" spinner but simply helped it along if it ended up landing on the same body part too many times in a row
-Instead of checking items off of a sheet, I simply called items out from the mat. This made everything SO much easier. I'd spin the spinner, call out the body part and color, and simply looked at the terms I adhered to the mat for that color, and called out one of the terms.
-I set the timer for about 6 minutes. Ten minutes seemed to take too long. Six to Seven minutes seemed like to magic window of time.
The kiddos who played the game enjoyed it!
Until next time, piano blogger signing off....................
