{"id":1239,"date":"2012-02-06T12:35:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T02:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2012-02-06T12:35:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T02:35:20","slug":"a-new-studio-theme-for-the-year-warthogs-school-of-magic-and-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/a-new-studio-theme-for-the-year-warthogs-school-of-magic-and-music\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Studio Theme For The Year &#8211; Warthogs: School of Magic and Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a lot of students who have been captivated by the JK Rowling books about Harry Potter.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t mind them myself ;D<\/p>\n<p>After such a long break over Christmas, I find that most students are a little rusty and have gotten out of their practice routine, so I like to motivate them with something fun.\u00a0 What could be more fun than getting to dress up like a wizard, get sorted out into houses and play some games around the Harry Potter theme?!<\/p>\n<p>I have been wanting to do this for a while, but I ran out of time.\u00a0 I was inspired to dive into it this term by Samantha Coates&#8217; blog on her website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blitzbooks.com.au\/Blog\/EntryId\/29\/House-Points-Update.aspx\">http:\/\/www.blitzbooks.com.au\/Blog\/EntryId\/29\/House-Points-Update.aspx<\/a>.\u00a0 I &#8216;borrowed&#8217; the idea to have only two houses: Slytherdor and Ravenpuff.\u00a0 I printed out house mottos, shields and a sign for my door.\u00a0 I even had capes that were appropriate colours.<\/p>\n<p>I made a musical sorting hat, and my students will be sorted out into teams this week.<\/p>\n<p>I found some Harry Potter labels to go on glass jars in case you wanted to do the &#8220;whole hog&#8221; (pardon the pun) found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overthebigmoon.com\/halloween-decor-harry-potter-potion-bottles-free-printable\/\">http:\/\/www.overthebigmoon.com\/halloween-decor-harry-potter-potion-bottles-free-printable\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I will need a nametag.\u00a0 &#8220;Professor Notehog&#8221; sounds like a good one ;D<\/p>\n<p>Photos to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a lot of students who have been captivated by the JK Rowling books about Harry Potter.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t mind them myself ;D After such a long break over Christmas, I find that most students are a little rusty and have gotten out of their practice routine, so I like to motivate them with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}