Music Education Ezine
Welcome back to our monthly ezine series for 2009. Here at the Fun Music Company we hope you have already had a fantastic start to the year and look forward to helping you make music lessons more fun for your students this year. If you are looking for some classroom teaching ideas and lesson plans for year and are wondering how your going to find time to get quality ideas and resources together, then our new website called Printable Music Lesson Plans could be just what you are looking for. It is crammed packed with fun worksheets, fact sheets and teacher lesson plan ideas designed to help you teach a term module in the Instruments of the Orchestra. From this site you'll even be able to get a free lesson plan on the violin just to get you started. Just click here to get the plans. To all the studio teachers out there, have you ever thought about why some students just love group sessions and thrive in that environment and others just can't do the group lesson structure and either take on private sessions or even drop out? I have just written a feature article on the parents music guide to help provide perspective on the all important debate of Group Vs Private Lessons. It's controversial and I would love to get your feedback and own perspectives on this all important issue . Last month at the Fun Music Company we introduced a new theory system to help with teaching young children music theory. If you haven't yet had a chance to take a look at our Eight Strategies to use to Inspire and Motivate Young Children to learn music then just visit The Junior Musicianship system for the information and by entering your email address, you get access to some free worksheets to get you started. Keep making your music lessons Fun!  Janice Tuck This Months Articles: Adapting games to suit classes with special needs. Many special needs teachers have contacted me asking for some variations to games for their students. This article explains three games and different ways to adapt them for special needs classes. 
Group Vs Private Piano Lessons - Whats the right choice for my child? If you are wondering about the right choices and advice to give to parents and grandparents about private or group lessons, then here is an article designed to help you make the right choices. 
Strategies for helping young children learn music theory Eight strategies to use to inspire and motivate young children to love theory as much as the practical, plus a free download preview of our new product - The Junior Musicianship System. 
Ideas to help with sight reading for percussion Sight reading strategies are often an overlooked skill, but are never the less important if your students ever need an audition. Here are some useful percussion sight reading strategies that could easily be adapted to other instruments.  |