It has been a while since Andrea and I have shared a practice tracker for your piano students.
But, if ever there was a month that needs a practice tracker, it’s May!
With piano recitals and exams approaching, it is important that your kids are making practice part of their daily routines. Not only do you want them to be prepared so they have wonderful performance experiences, but you also want those performances to reflect well on your studio.
To help you kick off a solid month of practice, today we are sharing a cute color-it practice tracker for your kiddos.
Before You Download Our May Practice Tracker
The practice tracker we’re sharing at the bottom of today’s post has been created to correspond with our recently released pre-reading piano book, Glissando and the Slimy Songbook, V. U. Level A.
While the printable works well as a standalone resource, it works wonders when paired with this loveable supplementary resource.
Glissando and the Slimy Songbook is an innovative pre-reading resource that uses Wunder Dot Notation on the Wunder Staff.
If you have used Chillin’ on the Black Keys, V. U. Level B or Nuts For Alpha Notes, V. U. Level C, then you are already familiar with the Wunder Staff.
The Wunder Staff is an innovative pre-reading music staff that facilitates a student’s visual recognition of directional movement when reading Wunder Dots (in Level A), finger number notes (in Level B), and alpha notes (in Level C).
So, what are Wunder Dots?
Wunder Dots are finger number symbols placed on the Wunder Staff. They are a huge pedagogical advancement over the approach found in old-fashioned method books that let finger numbers just “float in space”.
As mentioned, the structured placement of Wunder Dots on the Wunder Staff allows students to read directional movement from their first piano lesson.
But there’s more!
Wunder Dots exist as finger number circles and stretched bars. The stretched bars, indicating that students should hold down a key, represent an early introduction to reading rhythmic notation; an innovation entirely unique to Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Very Useful Piano Library.
Together with the Wunder Staff, the Wunder Dot Notation found in Glissando and the Slimy Songbook will provide the strongest foundation for future learning that you will ever find in a pre-reading piano resource.
If you can’t wait to get your hands on Glissando and the Slimy Songbook, check it out on Amazon.
If you want to check out a visual preview, scroll past the cover.
1. Piano Music With Loveable Lyrics
2. Activity Pages
3. A Practice Tracker, and a Certificate
Buy Glissando and the Slimy Songbook, V.U. Level A.
Download Our May Color-It Practice Tracker
Click on the first button below to download our May Color-It Practice Tracker from the Members Only Printables section of the Growing With WunderKeys Toolkit.
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