The phrase herding cats is fitting when you teach Christmas piano lessons to early primer students.
With excitement aplenty and routines disrupted, keeping them focused will be your greatest challenge. So, you better have numerous tools at hand to ensure learning continues in lessons and at home.
In today’s post, we are sharing a Christmas keyboard awareness activity that serves as a home practice tracker and coloring activity.
Designed for students who are learning to name keys on the piano, it is a wonderful supplement to our Christmas piano book, The “Elf-a” Notes World Tour.
Three Essential Christmas Books For Your Collection
Today’s Christmas keyboard awareness activity can be found at the bottom of the post, but first, let’s look at the holiday resources that should be on every piano teacher’s shelf.
Christmas Book 1: The “Elf-a” Notes World Tour, V. U. Level C
With Christmas classics arranged specifically for pre-reading students, The “Elf-a” Notes World Tour is the holiday resource that will actually speed up the development of your early primer piano students.
If you want to combine the joy of learning music with the joy of Christmas, there is no better resource than this book.
You can check out an entire “look inside” preview of The “Elf-a” Notes World Tour on the Teach Piano Today blog.
Click here or on the cover below to buy this book today.
Christmas Book 2: The Flight Of The Christmas Tree, V. U. Level G
Like all of the piano books in Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Very Useful Piano Library, The Flight Of The Christmas Tree is a pedagogical powerhouse jam-packed with piano songs and activities… but with a Christmas-themed twist.
Composed in middle C position, the traditional Christmas carols in this book combine with hilarious lyrics to weave a heartwarming holiday tale.
This book is leveled for mid-primer piano students but it is composed so that it can be used with late primer, and even level 1 piano students too.
Click here or on the cover below to buy this book today.
Christmas Book 3: Comet’s Freezing Cold Carols, V. U. Level K
If you have been teaching for a while, you know that most popular holiday tunes cannot be played at the pedagogical level of a primer or early level 1 student.
Whether it’s eighth-note rhythms, tricky hand movements, or unfamiliar grand staff notes, most Christmas tunes don’t care about pedagogical progress.
This means, that holiday tunes often confuse kids… until now.
Composed in C position, the reimagined Christmas solos in Comet’s Freezing Cold Carols will help children gain confidence playing hands-together stepping and skipping notes, beginning left-hand accompaniments, and quarter rests.
Click here or on the cover below to buy this book today.
Download Today’s Christmas Keyboard Awareness Activity
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