With kids returning to piano lessons this week, there is a good chance that their note reading skills need a little polish.
While I don’t imagine your mid-primer students are struggling with treble staff notes in C position, the Christmas holidays probably took a toll on those bass staff notes!
So, your first Welcome Back activity should be the winter-themed bass staff note reading game that we are sharing today.
With this fun activity, your students can ease back into piano lessons so they will be ready for all of the music coming their way in 2023.
Winter Note Reading and Snowman-Themed Music
Our winter-themed note reading game is available at the bottom of the post, but first…
Last year we released Sledward’s Ice And Easy Songbook, V. U. Level H.
You can check it out on Amazon.
Composed in C position, this laugh-out-loud resource follows the hilarious adventures of a snowman named Sledward and his quest for a gold medal.
Inside you will discover 7 piano solos, a teacher-student duet, warm-up exercises, note reading games, sight-reading and rhythm activities, a practice tracker, and a certificate.
With winter bearing down on many of us, this is the perfect book to piggyback on the excitement of the season.
Download and Play Win Or Luge: Bass Staff Note Reading
In Win Or Luge your piano students must help the snowman luge to the finish line by following a note reading path to victory.
Win Or Luge Instructions
- Click here to download today’s note reading game. (enter the password found in today’s email)
- To begin, the student places one penny (the “snowman”) over each colored game square.
- Next, the student chooses a penny, names the note underneath, and then slides the penny along the game squares that contain the matching note. The penny cannot skip over any game squares. For example, if a penny is resting on F on the bass staff, the student slides it from F to F to F.
- Once the student slides the penny onto a square with a black arrow, it is removed from the game board.
- The student repeats Steps 3 and 4 for the remaining pennies on the game board.
Is it just me or are the instructions for playing Win or Luge sort of unclear? I couldn’t figure out how the game goes…? 🙂
Your student is simply finding the “path” of similar notes. Here’s a little video from another game with this same game-play format if you’re a visual learner 🙂 https://youtube.com/shorts/-Uo39MikK7Q?feature=share
Do you have anything to help a 13 year old beginning student with probable ADD? She is scheduled for testing thus summer, so no medication to help.
Hi Sue! What are the issues that she’s having? Every student is different, so ADD may not manifest in the same way student-to-student. Let me know what you’re needing assistance with and I can try to help.