Fall Preschool Piano Palooza Lesson Plan

Ready for the Palooza!

Earlier this month, the studio hosted a Preschool Piano Palooza, a free event where preschoolers could experience a taste of the preschool piano classes offered here. It was wonderful to see so many children, some as young as two, playing their first piece on the piano after just 30 minutes! I'm looking forward to hosting another one in the future!

I've included the lesson plan in this post, for those of you curious to read more about it. This plan is purposefully multi-sensory and fall themed. One resource that I did use and is not mentioned in this plan was Pumpkin Musical Alphabet Cards from Susan Hong Studio. She posted them the night before the Palooza, and they were so adorable that I just had to include them last minute!

Resource Links:

https://www.kiddykeys.com/ This was the curriculum that provided the base for this event. The songs, story book, coloring pages, cloth keyboard, and discs came from here.
Tales of a Musical Journey For this particular event, I only used some of the exercises found in Irina's teacher guide. This book is excellent for beginners and teaching proper piano technique.

Five Little Pumpkins Book I created a simple finger play to accompany this book.
Getting to Know You Page
Autumn Musicland Game From Greenside Music
Blackbird Puppets These puppets have been a favorite in my studio for almost 2 years now!
My First Piano Trip to London Another great resource that I can't imagine being without!

My students and I love the Music Alphabet Song from My First Piano Adventures (MFPA), so I used the CD for that song only during the Palooza.

Preschool Piano Palozza!

Sept. 5, 2016

Materials:

·         KiddyKeys & MFPA CD	·         My First Piano Trip to London
·         5 Little Pumpkins Book	·         2 Blackbird Puppets
·         Buckets & drumsticks	·         Cloth keyboard & circles
·         Getting to Know You Pages	·         Parent Handbooks/Information
·         Coloring Pages & Markers	·         Autumn Musicland Game

Opening:

·         KiddyKeys Song                     

·         Getting to Know You Page

·         Let’s Say Hi!

Technique:

·         Tales of a Musical Journey (Gross Motor Skills)

-           Weeping Willow Exercise

-           Big Bird Exercise

-           Windmill Exercise

-           Floating Arms Exercise (like pool floaties)

·         5 Little Pumpkins & 2 Little Blackbirds (Fine Motor Skills)

-           Read 5 Little Pumpkins Book and complete finger plays

-           2 Little Blackbirds

Theory:          

·         Music Alphabet, pg. 62 in MFPA with song

·         Play Autumn Musicland

·         Keyboard Geography: Use cloth keyboard and mark groups of black keys with circles

·         Use Kids Music Piano app to find letters on keyboard; which black key group is C closest to?

Piece:

·         Learn and play Royal Guard piece

Creativity:      

·         Bucket Drum Echoes

·         Read story/color pictures, if time permits

Conclude class with choice from prize box!