It’s been a year full of music fun and adventures at Learnatune Games and I hope your students have enjoyed playing as much as mine have! Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful holiday season and looking forward to sharing more games in 2023.
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Using play as serious learning in the music lesson
“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood” Fred Rogers I drove past my piano teachers house recently and memories of having lessons as a child came flooding back. All those years ago there was no…
Happy New Year
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year and hope you had a wonderful festive season. I have been busy during the holidays turning my original Tempo Galaxy into two fully printed books, making it even easier to start an incentive program in your music studio. These should be published in the next week or so and…
- Music adventure | Music mystery | Music teaching | Music theory | Music theory games | Piano | Treble Instruments | Woodwind
NEW! Popular pizza mystery now available for woodwind!
SUSAN’S BOOKS REVIEWS Delighted to announce that my popular piano music mystery, ‘Who Stole My Pizza?’ has now been released for treble instruments in the key of C. So if you play flute or recorder, for example, you can join in the fun and test your detective skills in this theory and sheet music based…
- ABRSM music theory | Grade 1 music theory | Music teaching | Music theory | Music theory games | Note naming
Beat the teacher by spinning for apples!
Spinning the wheel, my student giggled as it landed on the area where I have to give her some of my apples. It was even funnier a few turns later when I lost all my apples and she won the game! Spin for Apples is a light-hearted online theory game for teacher versus student and…
Giving students ownership of their learning
Many years ago when I was studying for a teaching diploma I read a really useful book by Susan Hallam and one part of it must have struck a chord with me (no pun intended!). I got the same book out for one of my own diploma students a few years after and realised I…
How do you practice?
A common question from parents is ‘how long should my child practice for?’. This is an interesting topic and one that can spark much debate between teachers, parents and students. Personally, I have never been a fan of clock watching while practising. The student can feel obligated to sit at the piano (or whatever instrument…
