I have two or three students playing good old "March of the Goblins" by Boris Berlin this month. We have marched around the room, made up silly words and discovered all the repeating patterns. Now we are left with that tricky spot (you know the one, you can see it circled in orange on my student's page).

I have two or three students playing good old "March of the Goblins" by Boris Berlin this month. We have marched around the room, made up silly words and discovered all the repeating patterns. Now we are left with that tricky spot (you know the one, you can see it circled in orange on my student's page).

 

 The other day my student came and played her goblins, which is going very well (except for the tricky spot). So I pulled out my iPad and opened up iSpud, which is just like Mr. Potato Head. We agreed that every time she played the problem section she would add an item to Mr. Potato's head. The first few repetitions weren't perfect, but by number 5 she was sounding great. As you can see there is a good collection of mouths, eyeballs, feet and so on. Of course in my mind, that translates to about 10 repetitions... yay.

Just a spoonful of sugar, right? This is a handy and effective little app for encouraging the kind of repetitions required to smooth out a trouble spot. iSpud is a free app for iPhone or iPad. You can also upgrade if you want to and get additional costume themes. Happy practicing!