Piano Adventures Lesson Book Level 1 Unit 5 Assignments and Supplementary Activities

Piano Teaching Lesson Assignments: Introducing Half and Whole Rests

These lesson assignment instructions that I share via google docs  with my students include embedded links with videos and supplementary activities for flipped learning at home that can be done during lab time or at home. This post includes specific instructions for pieces in the Piano Adventures Lesson Book 1 but many of the activities could also be used with other pieces for introducing rests.  I like to display Susan Paradis's Free Whole and Half Rest Poster on the piano to capture students attention as they come to the lesson where we they will be learning about half and whole rests. 

Concept: Half and Whole Rests

UNIT 5: Half Rest and Whole Rest

Lesson: Red LB 36-37 Forest Drums

• *Did you “rest” on the rests?

• Watch Create First 1 Kyoto Duet and Solo. Can you play 5ths in the Left hand while making melodies with E, F, A, B and D

• Game: VMT Take a Rest or Wunderkeys Rainbow Rests

• Optional: Draw your own half and whole rest poster including a hat(half) and hole (whole).

Focus Goal/New Concepts: Half and Whole Rest

Lesson: Red LB 38 No Moon Tonight

• *Did you “rest” on the rests and hold the ties?

• Try playing along with the Teacher Duet Part

• Game: SP Counting up the Mountain or PN Over the Edge 

Lesson: Red LB 39 Grumpy Old Troll

• *Did you remember the staccatos and slurs,  “rest” on the rests and hold the ties?

• Game:  Rally with Rhythms or Mitten Match 1

Additional Lesson Plans:

Unit 1: Legato and Staccato

Unit 2: Treble Spaces

Unit 3: Landmark C's

Unit 4: Intervals

Unit 6: Sharps and Flats

Unit 7: Tonic and Dominant

Unit 8: The I Chord

Unit 9: The V7 Chord

Unit 10: G Pentascale