How are your New Year's resolutions going? I'm sure you've had a chance to consume plenty of media telling you what everyone else is going to change in 2018 and giving you ideas about your own goals and plans for the year. As a chronic non-planner, I wanted to offer a different perspective to those of you who, like me, haven't jumped on the New Year's resolution bandwagon yet. I'm … [Read more...] about Meandering Monday: My (Lack Of) New Years Resolutions
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6 Things That Should Happen At the First Piano Lesson
On the 6th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... 6 Things That Should Happen At The First Piano Lesson. I'm joining up with several other piano education bloggers with 12 Days of Piano Teacher Inspiration that correspond with the 12 days of Christmas. Did you know that the 12 days of Christmas are really after Christmas. They are the 12 days from Christmas to Epiphany, when the 3 … [Read more...] about 6 Things That Should Happen At the First Piano Lesson
Emoji Assignment Book and 25% off in the Pianissimo Store
I'm about to head to the printer with my emoji assignment book that I'll be using with all of my students this school year. I really like how it turned out! I has a cover, an emoji rating system, a theory assignment page and a regular assignment page. I'm also including some manuscript paper and I bought a studio license of Susan Hong's music mandalas, so I'll sprinkle those throughout … [Read more...] about Emoji Assignment Book and 25% off in the Pianissimo Store
Piano Player Emojis
I'm creating an emoji themed assignment book for my students this year. I wasn't satisfied with the selections of piano-related emojis to choose from, so I created my own! I came up with the designs, and my favorite graphic designer made them happen! I love how they turned out. I especially love the grimmacing face in the lower left corner, because I feel like I make that face a lot at … [Read more...] about Piano Player Emojis
5 Goals Of Preschool Music Class
I've recently written about the benefits of a preschool music class and how vastly different teaching preschoolers is from teaching older students. (Spoiler: I used to think preschoolers were mini elementary piano students who could sit on a piano bench for long periods of time!) Once I became more enlightened about how to work with preschoolers, it became very clear that teaching … [Read more...] about 5 Goals Of Preschool Music Class
Free Music Interval Images
I have a cute, free download to share with you today! Many of my piano students learn to read music invervallically, meaning that they find a note based on how far away it is from the previous note. I find that a lot of student have trouble differentiating between the intervals at first because they are only subtly different from each other. When I'm helping my student read the intervals, … [Read more...] about Free Music Interval Images