My beginners have a hard time remembering their notes on the staff.  So this week I designated “Space Week” where we would focus on just space notes.  I decorated the room with glow in the dark stars and had the students wear alien antennas.  My wonderful husband made the antennas, so I must include a picture of him.  

My students (and my baby) thought it was fun when I answered the door wearing the antennas.

Then, we used my poster board staff to put the letters on each space.  I had them do this three times and timed

 them each time.  They had fun beating previous times.  Then, I gave them each a cut-out whole note to put on the staff as I called out notes.  The older kids breezed through this, so I had them place the whole note on the staff and then go play it on the piano. 

I made up some simple pages with space notes using staff paper from this website www.blanksheetmusic.net for them to take home and fill out for theory homework.  It was a great success and they all came back the next week knowing their space notes!