Six Square Oranges

Review, review, review. That's how I keep things in my students' minds. 

​Six Square Oranges is a review game for elementary school beginners. We play it almost every week for the first year. I've learned that just because I've told them or showed them something 10 times, doesn't mean they will remember. But if remembering means they will win a game, they are much more likely to do so! ​

This Bingo-styled game reminds students of the names and meanings of the following music symbols:

• Line/Space notes
• Treble/Bass Clefs
• Piano/Forte Dynamics
• ​​Keyboard Keys C, D, E, F and G​

• ​​Middle C
  
• Step Up/Step Down/ Repeated Note
• ​Quarter Rest​​
• Whole, Dotted Half, Half and Quarter Notes

My kiddos love it and almost every lesson I hear "Are we playing Six Square Oranges today?" even before they have played anything on the piano!

​Now I am using it as a practice incentive - "Next week we will only play Six Square Oranges if you can all play 'Frogs on Logs' correctly." 

It takes about 3 minutes to play, so it is a fantastic way to start or end a group lesson, though we usually play it 2 or 3 times.

Six Square Oranges is available from my Etsy store, but is free this month to everyone who signs up for the PianoTogether newsletter! Get your free copy before the end of March!