I was visiting Anne Crosby’s Piano Discoveries site the other day and found that she had uploaded yet more exciting games! She has now divided and organized the games into categories including:
Beginner Concepts
Interval Identification
Key Signatures
Notes, Ledger Lines, and Accidentals
Major and Minor
The “Ledger Line Speller” game was particularly helpful to me as I have some students struggling to master these notes. The new “Same Pitch Snap” is also helpful for this same skill. I’m adapting the “Ledger Line Speller” so that it is not specific to Halloween, and I’ll be making about 10 copies of the staff, laminating them and asking my students to complete this activity while they are waiting for another student’s lesson to end (the extra staves will allow them to make one staff per word and I’ll be able to see their answers. Here is a video to show how a student will play this game:
“Major Minor Match” has also been fun for my students. I give them the cards and use a stop watch to time them. If they can beat their time by 2-5 seconds the next week (it’s different for every student), then they get a dip in the candy jar or a certificate of completion.
“Mr. Interval Octopus” will also be useful for my students who need to improve their interval identification time.
There’s even more new games on the site since last time I posted, so visit Piano Discoveries soon!
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