I would like to enter myself for all grades of the Music Craft exams in August this year. I'd like to do this for a few reasons:

1. It's an excellent way to quickly familiarise myself with all aspects of the course;

2. If I submit an entry I'm far more likely to actually study for it;

3. I would not feel happy putting any of my students through Music Craft until I've experienced the exams for myself - after all, I sat the Theory and Musicianship exams all those years ago;

4. The exams are free for this one series, which makes it a very economical exercise.

I'd love to have some 'study buddies' for this project. It will be a wonderful journey in professional development and a great way to keep in touch with other teachers.

It will be wonderful to have you and your husband along on this great journey of professional development!

I have posted my inital comments in the 'Preliminary' thread. You ave not mentioned preliminary grade, only grades 1-4. Are you planning on doing Preliminary or starting at Grade 1?

I have posted a spreadsheet in the downloads section which outlines a suggested time-frame for covering all grades in time for the exam. I am also planning to write comments once a week (hopefully!) beginning next term.

Good luck!

Adding to my above comment, I did find out today that there is a teacher pack for the MusicCraft books.  You can purchase each grade as a pack for about $100.00 (with the teachers books as well), or the entire set of all grades for $600.00.  I flinched at that last one.

But if you are lucky enough to have a teacher discount at your local music shop, you can purchase the entire set for about $540.00, which ends up cheaper than buying each individual book.

A comment I did hear recently was that it's a shame they didn't include just the CDs in the teacher's pack too, so we have the option of only purchasing the teacher's book, and not having to get the workbooks too.

But given that I'm about to sit Grades 1 and 2, I'm going through the workbooks anyway.

Di