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House Mottos
The two house mottos I am using. I made the Slytherdor one up all by myself. The Ravenpuff one was on the same site as the shields…which seems to have disappeared (so I can’t give appropriate credit until it pops up again). The mottos kind of end up meaning the same thing – working hard […]
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House Shields – Slytherdor and Ravenpuff
Another clever person put up some house shields on the internet. I Googled ‘Slytherdor’ and ‘Ravenpuff’ and they came up just when I needed them, but they’re not coming up for me right now. Anyways, to be a bit naughty and not being able to find the original source and therefore give credit to the […]
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Scales with a Harry Potter Twist
Turns out scales aren’t so bad when you’re adding a different rhythm to them. Enter…Harry Potter Rhythms! I have taken some well known names from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Harry_Potter_characters and put them onto cards. The idea is that those students who are familiar with Harry Potter will go “Aaaaaaaaaah I know that person” and get all enthusiastic, then you […]
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Never Let Snape Choose the Music
To go with my Warthogs Theme, I found this poster that a very clever person did on this site: http://weheartit.com/entry/9618800 I have printed it out, and will put it up on my wall for a bit of a giggle ;D
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A New Studio Theme For The Year – Warthogs: School of Magic and Music
I have a lot of students who have been captivated by the JK Rowling books about Harry Potter. I don’t mind them myself ;D After such a long break over Christmas, I find that most students are a little rusty and have gotten out of their practice routine, so I like to motivate them with […]
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Holiday Music Camp – 4th grade and higher violin students – 1 1/2 hours
I realised something when playing flashcard games with this group: my mind goes completely blank when it’s hot. We’re right in the middle of Summer here, and it is HOT! Good fun and lots of it was had with this group of students. What we did:- Game: (Approx. 30 mins) Something’s Missing (found here: Something’s […]
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2011 Holiday Music Camp – 3 to 5 year olds – 45 mins
I have a few littlies I teach. Some do Kinder Beat, some learn violin and other learn piano. I wanted to do some fun activities with them that they could all do. Here is what we did:- Activity song: Dr Knickerbocker. (The Wiggles have a fun version, if you google it). Game: Happy New Year […]
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Holiday Music Camp – Older Beginner/Preliminary (Piano) – 1 hour
These were my older beginner piano students over the age of 12 (all girls in my group). They were a VERY happy lively giggly bunch of girls and we had a lot of fun. This is what I did with them:- Game: Interval Slap (found here: Interval Slap from Susan Paradis’ website) Game: Beat Bingo (which […]
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Holiday Music Camp – Beginner and First Grade (Violin) – 1 hour
I had quite a few students turn up to this activity. This is what we did:- Game: Something’s Missing (found here: Something’s Missing Game) Learn: The Irish Washerwoman Trio (found here: The Irish Washerwoman Violin Trio ) I was also going to get them to compose a short song based on our Great Music Dig […]
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Holiday Music Camp – First and Second Grade (Piano) – 1 hour
The outline for my First and Second Grade piano students was as follows:- Game: – Over the Edge (found here: Over the Edge game ) Game: Candy Bingo (found here: Candy Bingo) One of my students has allergies and couldn’t have the skittles I was planning to use so we used my shiny blue ‘stones’ instead. I […]
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