I have a new freebie available for you in the Shop today! I’m already a little tired of winter, but with Valentines Day coming up next month it makes the cold a little more bearable 🙂 I love this fun holiday! Piano Valentines are cute music-themed Valentine cards you can print out and give to your students. It’s always a nice gesture to give our students small gifts for holidays such as Christmas and Valentines Day. This makes it super easy! Just print, sign your name, attach a candy or other small treat and they are ready to go! There are five different sayings to choose from.

Happy teaching!

Don’t miss my other fun Valentines Day-themed piano resources!

New today in the Shop is a fun Valentines Day-themed practice printable – Piano Practice Conversation Hearts. One of the most important things we can do as piano teachers to help our students succeed is to spend lots of time actually teaching them how to practice correctly and efficiently. If students have the tools they need to learn a song well and learn it relatively quickly, they will learn more quickly and gain much more confidence, putting them on the path to success in piano! I find that so many people don’t actually really know how to practice well, so it’s a great thing to talk to your students about often!

This fun printable will help students practice their pieces in lots of different ways to help them learn them more quickly and accurately. Print and cut out the hearts. Send home a set with each student to use for practice. Assign them how many hearts to choose for each piece to be practiced. For example, you may assign your student to practice each piece 5 or 6 times – for each repetition they will choose a heart (from a face-down shuffled pile), then practice in the manner stated on the heart. There are 18 different ways to practice that should work well with most beginning or intermediate pieces. Hopefully this will be a fun way for your students to practice and help them to not just play their pieces all the way through over and over and over. 🙂

Download the Piano Practice Conversation Hearts here!

Today there’s a fun new freebie available for download! Compose a Planet is a fun composition activity for students who know their C, G, and F five-finger patterns.

You have discovered an uncharted sector of the galaxy with three new planets! Students get to choose a name for each planet and then compose a short song to go with that planet, using that planet’s special characteristics to make each song unique.

Download this freebie here! You may also find it in the Freebies section of the Shop! Hope you enjoy!