Preparing for Your First Elementary Music Teaching Job. Organized Chaos. Top 5 suggestions to help you get ready over the summer for your first elementary music job.
Do you have a favorite rhythm game or activity to use in your music lessons? Rhythm is something that always needs review, so you can never have too many
What you put on your classroom walls should reflect what you teach. Read this article to get suggestions about what to post, how, and why!
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Preparing for Your First Elementary Music Teaching Job. Organized Chaos. Top 5 suggestions to help you get ready over the summer for your first elementary music job.
It inevitably happens to every music teacher at some point in their teaching career: you have to call out absent. Whether it’s to attend a conference,
Five fun and action-filled circle games to practice rhythm, pitch, and more with your elementary music students.
Free Music Substitute Lesson Plan (for a non-music sub). Teach meter with short, fun video clips, "script" for the teacher and movement activities for kids.
Music theory worksheets are valuable tools for individuals who are learning or studying music. These worksheets provide structured exercises that focus specifically on note values. With a range of activities and exercises tailored to different skill levels, music theory worksheets help students grasp the concept of note values and their significance in creating rhythm and melodic patterns. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced musician, these worksheets are designed to enhance your understanding of note values and improve your musical performance.
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In this 15-Minute Music Lesson freebie, with a free downloadable printable pack, you will learn about 3 of the most famous pieces of music of the Olympics.
Here are some examples of body percussion and why it's important to teach this skill, along with 7 simple activity ideas.
This article will give you helpful tips and tricks on teaching music for special education classes in your elementary school.
Elementary Music Sub Plan Ideas. Organized Chaos. Excellent sub plans for elementary general music that are substitute and student approved and easy to use!
First year elementary music teachers face a lot of difficulties-- this is how to get ready for your first year!
Learn why the preschool ages is the best time to start music and movement activities with your young children, and how to do it.
Use our free printable music activity as a boredom buster with kids stuck at home or as a fun part of music education in a classroom.
These fun printable rhythm cards can be used in many ways to help introduce children to music concepts, symbols, patterns and sequences.
Kindergarten students love using instruments! Here are 5 tried and true rhythm activities to get your little ones engaged in music class.
Who doesn’t love music and what all it represents? And as you all already know it is said that having a musical education can help your brain to develop stronger in other educational areas as…
Music theory worksheets are valuable tools for individuals who are learning or studying music. These worksheets provide structured exercises that focus specifically on note values. With a range of activities and exercises tailored to different skill levels, music theory worksheets help students grasp the concept of note values and their significance in creating rhythm and melodic patterns. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced musician, these worksheets are designed to enhance your understanding of note values and improve your musical performance.
There are so many different places you can start from when creating a Curriculum Outline. A curriculum outline is a broad overview of your entire program, across all grade levels. It’s a zoomed out picture of what concepts you want to cover, and what grades will cover them. I’ve written about a c
Sweet Sounds - Quality Kodaly Resources for Elementary Music Educators
I started back to school this past week with my kids on Tuesday. I had such a great first week and I am so excited to be back making musi...
Whole Class Behavior Management Systems in Elementary Music. Organized Chaos. Ideas for whole class incentives that don't take away from music-making and encourage growth over competition.
These fun Musical Games with ping pongs are great for music classes, they're fun, cheap and easy to set up and always very popular!
All piano students should know these basic music theory concepts: Staff Awareness bass clef treble clef Note Names and Placement on the keyboard on the staff Basic Music Vocab measure bar lines, double bar lines repeat symbols slurs fermatas, etc. Basic Music Notes quarter eighth whole half Dotted Notes and Triplets timing Rests quarter […]
Free sheet music of traditional nursery rhymes and children's songs and free fun and easy music theory printable worksheets for kids.
This post may contain affiliate links. You pay the same and I get a small commission. Yay! (Please see my/our full disclosure for further information.) Looking for simple and fun music lessons? These movement activities for 2-3 grade elementary music class are just the ticket! These lessons are for second and third grade. They will… Continue reading The Best Movement Activities for 2-3 Grade Elementary Music Class
It has taken me a while to put together a classroom tour but I am thrilled to have a week of school under my belt and my classroom set up and humming along! The most exciting part of my classroom setup this year is being able to get back to many of the things I haven't been able to do during the pandemic, but I have also added a few new tweaks to my room from my pre-pandemic setup too, so I'm excited to share those as well. First to give you a lay of the land, here's a quick video around the entire space: Now let's talk about this year's updates! First of all the biggest change is going back to pre-pandemic seating arrangements. Oh how I have missed my circle! This year I used these carpet spots, which have a darker green color than the ones I used last year (my old ones were hard to distinguish between yellow and green), and so far they're holding up well. I've also got my chairs back in rows by color team instead of having each chair spread out: Last year because I had to set up the chairs spaced out 3 feet each, I wasn't able to use my normal job of line leader (I had a job for hand sanitizer instead). This year my line leaders are back! One of those, "Why didn't I think of this sooner?" tiny upgrades this year was on that same magnetic board where I have the color team jobs- the magnets for each class going up the piano keys are now horizontal and much easier to read: A procedural change I made this year was to designate my own hand signals for students to use in music class when they need to use the bathroom or a tissue- I made posters showing those hand signals next to the board. I also made new letters for my "MUSIC" letter system, which you can see in the same photo (those were long overdue for an upgrade!): The final update is one that I'm probably more excited about than I should be... I got new clipboards! I added these to my Amazon wishlist this summer and was thrilled to get them. The clips are much smaller, and they are plastic and of course in my 6 rainbow colors. So much to love about these compared to my old ones! I also decided this year to give students the choice between regular pencils, which I wrapped in a small piece of duct tape, or mechanical pencils. It has been a great start to the year to far and I do have a couple more updates to the classroom I'm hoping to get to throughout the year... we'll see! But for now I'm very happy with our space. Rather than rehashing all of the details on where I got things or why I have things set up the way I do, I'll direct you to my classroom tour post from 2018 where I have a lot more details on most of what you see here. And of course please leave a comment with any questions!
Elementary music teacher blogs, Kodaly Blogs, music sub plans, substitute music plans, music education activities, music resources, music games
We know why scales are important to practice, but how exactly do we keep this fun and interesting? Read on to find out!
DIY Song Cubes to help children learn music "old favorites" and practice finding and keeping the beat; for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.
Why you should do music and movement activities with your 3-5 year old. Easy activities for families to do at home or in preschools.
5 easy first piano lessons that you can do at home with your child, to introduce them to the piano, and build a strong foundation to learn the instrument.
So we’ve decided what we want to teach . We’ve chosen our musical materials . Now it’s time to plug it all in. Today I’m sharing how I’ve planned the first month of Kindergarten.
