Have your piano students already stopped practicing?
We’re only halfway through September, so it’s natural to assume that your kids diligently play piano every night.
But the reality is much different 🙂
From my experience, piano students practice like mad for one week following the summer break.
Then, quite quickly, regular practice starts to fade. In the blink of an eye, we are all back to begging our students to play the piano at home.
Of course, begging never works. Instead, piano students need to be motivated to practice.
Today we are sharing several Practice Punch Card incentives to get your kids back in a practice routine.
How To Use Our Practice Punch Cards
At the bottom of today’s post, you will find practice punch cards for students who love pirates, sharks, hamsters, and gastropods.
While the printables have been designed to correlate with books from Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Very Useful Piano Library, they can be used with students working from any piano book.
(But you should really introduce your students to the V. U. Library!)
Using our practice punch cards is a piece of cake.
To begin, print out the downloadable file at the bottom of the post. Next, cut out the cards and then hand them out to your students at the end of their next lessons. Then, instruct your students to punch out one hole on their cards (or cross one out) after completing a daily practice session.
When your students return to lessons the following week, place any completed cards into a basket (make sure student names are written on the back). At the end of the week, hold a raffle draw for a fun little prize or celebration.
If your piano students have stopped practicing, that’s about to change!
Before You Download Our Practice Punch Cards
On Tuesday we released Scally Wagtail Sails Into Treble, V. U. Level M.
Children using this elementary piano level 1A book will gain confidence playing music that includes the treble C 5-finger scale.
Like all of the resources in the V. U. Library, Scally Wagtail Sails Into Treble and its cheeky sense of humor is as much fun for teachers as it is for students!
Inside you and your students will discover 8 pirate-themed piano pieces with lyrics (including a duet), note-reading games, warm-up exercises, sight-reading activities, a rhythm activity, a practice tracker, and a certificate of achievement.
To get this book today click here or on the cover below.
Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Very Useful Piano Library is full of exciting resources. To explore more, click on a cover below or click here to check them all out in the WunderKeys Bookstore.
Download Today’s Practice Punch Cards
Click on the first button below to download our Piano Practice Punch Cards from the Members Only Printables section of the Growing With WunderKeys Toolkit.
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