FIVE STAR ACTIVITY BOOKS

When the lockdowns of 2020 came our way, we already had some online students, but suddenly ALL our students were online. Hurriedly we began converting all our in-class materials to PDFs for online use.

​We have since converted many of them again from PDFs to PowerPoint (as that allows more interaction and the students love the audio-visual PowerPoint effects), but we still use some of those original PDFs from time to time.

One of the PDFs we are using a lot is Five Star Rhythm Exercises. Some students are great at counting "one-two" for a half note/minim, and "one-two-three-four" for a whole note/semibreve, but sometimes the speed of the "one-two" is slower than the speed of the "one-two-three-four." I mean, not much is happening in the whole note, so why not get it over with quickly and move onto the "real music" LOL!

Having the students count the beats as "1 - 2 - 3 - 4" regardless of which note they are playing helps them to keep a steady beat - and understand that whole notes and rests are important too 😊.

The Five Star Activity books are included in the February Giveaways for Piano-Together Club members. If you'd like a free copy, sign up in the Pink Piano-Together Club box on the right, and you'll automatically receive them when we send out the February Giveaways next week. Yay!