My little niece loves keeping track of time. She crosses off the days on her calendar with complete devotion.
She is also my daughter’s very first piano student.
Last week, Lexi (my daughter) and I decided to create a note reading calendar for my niece. Needless to say, she was thrilled to see it appear in her piano binder.
Each day, my niece finds the date on her calendar and writes the name of the corresponding note in the space provided.
It really is as simple as that; one note named each day. But it makes a real difference.
The note reading calendar helps my niece read notes regularly and gives her a reason to open her piano binder each day. And, as all piano teachers know, once the piano binder is opened, there is a vastly improved chance that some practice will actually happen.
Today we are sharing August and September note reading calendars for your piano students. They will be handy tools for reinforcing note reading in those first few weeks of the school year.
Your Answer To Daily Note Reading
Today’s Note Reading Calendars are available at the bottom of the post, but first…
As you plan for the start of another year, you are probably thinking about the materials your students will need to purchase.
This year, in addition to method books, you’ll want all of your students to be carrying Andrea And Trevor Dow’s Timed Note Reading Tests For Piano in their music bags.
With over 90 days of note reading exercises, these VERY affordable books are quickly becoming a must-have resource for all primer and level 1 piano students.
While they get rave reviews from teachers, parents love them too! Seeing their children doing daily activities in a piano homework book is a visual reminder that piano lessons are well worth the money.
Click on a cover below to buy these books for your students…
Download Our Note Reading Calendars
Click on the image below to download note reading calendars for August and September. To use the calendars, place them in your students’ binders and instruct them to locate each day’s date, and then write the name of the corresponding note in the gray square below the date.
This is absolutely amazing!!! I can’t wait to use it.
So glad you’ll have fun with them 🙂
These are great ! As I close out my summer session and take a month off, these calendars will be great for my “newbies” who are just beginning to read notes. Our fall session will begin mid September; and I want to encourage the students who are starting to read notes. Next week is our last lesson and it will be nice to add the calendars to the take home sheets I’m sending with them. Since school is starting in another week, I don’t want them overwhelmed with things they have to remember in piano as well as school work. Thank you Trevor and Andrea !