Today I'm giving a glance into my first day of school lesson plans, from TK - 5th grade. In the first day of music class, students are arguably the most attentive they will be all year. This puts a unique pressure on the first day's lesson plan to set the tone for the rest of our time together.
Many educators can fall into the trap of waiting for the “perfect” time to start planning for the year ahead. There’s never a bad time to think carefully and creatively about your goals for your students, and how best to implement them. I would suggest that wherever you are in your year, it is the
When we prepare sol and mi, we're asking students to interact with this element before they realize its name. Instead of simply asking students to memorize the sound, we're asking students to use sol and mi to sing, play, improvise, and more. Then when we add the name, the name has meaning because s
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
Choosing songs to teach from in the music room can be tricky business. For one thing, there are an infinite number of songs from which to choose. You can easily put your head down to think of one song to use in a lesson only to look up hours later with stacks of books and binders next to
Elephant's truck swings to and fro. Left, right, stomp, stomp, watch him go.
Looking for games and lessons to teach solfege? These solfa activities will keep your students engaged in learning about melody in music class
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It's planning time! Summer is a great time to start planning your music curriculum, but if if you're in the middle of the school year it's worth it to think carefully and creatively about your goals for your students. Be sure to read the first part of this series where we loo
Sweet Sounds - Quality Kodaly Resources for Elementary Music Educators
Love to use scarves and movement in your elementary music room? Here is a scarf routine to Bizet's Les Toreadores No. 1. Your kids will love it!
The Makey Makey is a great invention tool! Help your students use it in the music room with these music class tested ideas. STEAM learning can be fun!
Love to use scarves and movement in your elementary music room? Here is a scarf routine to Bizet's Les Toreadores No. 1. Your kids will love it!
Walk into an elementary music room and you're likely to see students singing, reading, playing instruments, listening, improvising, and moving. Each of these activities can give us crucial insight into how our students are learning, and how we can help them. That insight is called assessment.&n
The first time I taught a group of kindergartens I was pretty excited. This age is so fun! But as the group walked in I realized the HUGE struggle it is to get Kindergarteners to do anything on their first day of school. It's the most adorable little struggle to get them to sit on the rug
It’s never a bad time to think about your big-picture goals for the upcoming year. Especially now, many educators are taking this time to get organized and make plans for next year to be their best year yet. When we start planning our year, it’s a great idea to start with a broad overview of each
Miss White had a fright In the middle of the night Saw a ghost eating toast Halfway up the lamp post! Here's a fun arrangement to use with your young students, just in time for Halloween!
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When lesson plans are built on solid and purposeful teaching strategies, they are quick and painless to write! They are simply the implementation of all the ideas, strategies, and sequences you’ve documented over the planning process. Be sure to read the first and second parts of this
This product was inspired by "write the room" activities. Rather than students writing as they travel around the room, they will use their recorders to "play the room." I use this activity during small group/station time and when I'm working with individual students. It gives the class a chance to move about the room and practice playing various rhythms. 56 Task Cards Including These Rhythms: Quarter Quarter Rest Barred Eighths Half Note Half Rest Sixteenths Eighth/Two Sixteenths Two Sixteenths/Eight You might also be interested in these other resources: Recorder Fingering Charts Recorder Fingering Puzzles Recorder Practice Strategies Poster Instrument Family Puzzles Rhythm Flashcards-Ta, TiTi, Rest Don't forget to follow me and leave feedback on your purchase to earn FREE TPT credit toward your next purchase! Hearing your feedback not only improves future products, but makes my day!
Today I'm giving a glance into my first day of school lesson plans, from TK - 5th grade. In the first day of music class, students are arguably the most attentive they will be all year. This puts a unique pressure on the first day's lesson plan to set the tone for the rest of our time together.
Always wanted to try music centers & workstations, but not sure where to start? We'll explore different ways to get students learning through centers!
Flexible Seating in the Music room is a great idea for all of your classes! Learn about what solutions worked best from this veteran teacher and how to add inexpensive options to your classroom.
I was inspired by another blogger, Emily at thesweetestmelody to make my own "Fall Rhythms" pack. Used it yesterday with kindergarteners an...
Centers for Kindergarten and 1st grade music students can be daunting! Add these 5 simple centers to the rotation in your elementary music classroom.
#떡대근육여캐_붐은_온다 ▪️김종건(트위터 @AGALSSAMUL)이 제작했습니다. ▪️떡대근육여캐전용 픽크루입니다. 가급적 여캐로만 사용해주시면 좋겠습니다. ▪️사용시 꼭 출처를 남겨주세요. -SNS프로필 사진 -자작캐릭터 제작 -자캐커뮤 및 TRPG 인장(합발폼 수정 가능) -원본을 알아볼 수 없을 정도의 수정, 악의적 편집을 제외하고 자유롭게 수정 가능합니다. -자작 발언 -원본을 심하게 훼손시키는 리터칭 -상업적 이용(유튜브 등의 프로필 사진 포함) -악의적인 편집/리터칭/트레이싱 등 -출처를 밝히지 않은 사용(이미지 내 아이디 지우기 등)
Learn all about classroom management for elementary music teachers and take control of your general music classroom today!
Classroom management is a deeply personal subject for each of us. It is the aspect of our teaching that determines whether we leave school with a headache, or a smile. And it is often the thing teachers view as their biggest struggle in the music room. You’ll find a lot of different appro
Today I'm giving a glance into my first day of school lesson plans, from TK - 5th grade. In the first day of music class, students are arguably the most attentive they will be all year. This puts a unique pressure on the first day's lesson plan to set the tone for the rest of our time together.
Today I'm giving a glance into my first day of school lesson plans, from TK - 5th grade. In the first day of music class, students are arguably the most attentive they will be all year. This puts a unique pressure on the first day's lesson plan to set the tone for the rest of our time together.
Hi there! I'm just A LITTLE excited to be blogging today about Specdrums!!! I first saw Specdrums on Katie Wonderly's Facebook page. I asked her about them and discovered that the inventor, Steven Dourmashkin, is a Phd. student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, a 20 minute drive from my home!!! I quickly reached out to him and told him I'd LOVE to be a lab school and he responded, giving me two Specdrum rings to use in my classroom. Right now we've just started using them as Specdrum is finishing up their Kickstarter. We're really hoping that Steven and his crew make it out to see us sometime! I told my dear friend, Aileen Miracle about them, and she also reached out to Steven. So it is with GREAT EXCITEMENT that we're blogging about this new, cool piece of technology that you can get for your classrooms. What is a Specdrum?! Well, it's a ring that works in conjunction with a free app that you download from the app store. The ring then can be programed to play pitches, based on the colors that it touches. Don't be fooled by the word "programmed!" It's super easy, and Aileen goes into more detail on her blog post about Specdrums. I've now had the Specdrum for a week and the very first use in my classroom was using it to practice mi-re-do patterns with third grade. Here's the very first use of the Specdrum ring in my classroom: The sound is being amplified by plugging my phone into the sound system in my room. Through the Specdrums app I programed the colors to match the pitches B, A and G. The student then tracked the notes on the staff to play mi-re-do in the song "Hot Cross Buns" as the class sang the song. Again, we've only had the rings for a week. Since I see my kids on a 4 or 5 day rotation (depending on the grade level), this is the first time any of the children in these videos are using the rings. Here a student is tracking the melody of "We Are Dancing in the Forest" as the class sings the song. What I LOVE in listening to this is how they are responding vocally to the way the Specdrum is playing the melody. When the sound is shorter and choppier the students are vocally matching it! Here's another example of using the ring to play the melody of "We Are Dancing in the Forest". I took a second in class to program the pitches I needed into the app, based on the color of the students' shirts. (See Aileen's post. What I did was put the ring onto the shirt, dragged the color on the app to the pitch I needed and viola! The note was programed to play the pitch). Please forgive our excitement, we recorded this on a Friday... during the last 20 minutes of the day! Fourth grade used the Specdrums to review low la, in the song Skin and Bones. One student would play the pattern on the "ghosts" that I had printed out. They passed it around as we sang, so that they took turns. This allowed me to check for individual tracking (and they thought they were just playing with the new technology!). This one you'll hear that there were a couple times that they accidentally missed the color and the pitch in the pattern was off: One final way that we've used Specdrums (SO FAR. . . . . ) is with tone ladders. The third graders are reviewing mi-re-do. We practiced echoing vocal patterns with solfa tone ladders. All students had a tone ladder that they pointed to as they echoed the pattern. This is an "easier" version as I sang the solfa and they echoed on solfa. To make it harder I could sing on a neutral syllable and students would echo on solfa. In this lesson, two students would use the Specdrum rings to echo-play the pattern as everyone else sang. After they played they would pass the ring to their neighbor. In one minute everyone in class got a chance to play the pattern and I got to assess who really understood the mi-re-do tone scale. You'll notice that some students don't track the pattern, they're a little distracted by our new "toy" (technology) and that I do take time to give them a second turn. As they get more familiar with the rings some of the technical glitches should get worked out. Right now Specdrums is finishing up their kickstarter. There is only ONE DAY left to donate to their kickstarter campaign! If you donate $39 or more, you'll be sent one Specdrums ring, and if you donate $74 or more, you get two! If you'd like 10, you can get them by pledging $349 or more. The rings will be delivered to you in January of 2018. I can't wait to get the additional Specdrums that I ordered. Not only are the kids having a GREAT time playing with them but I can see the uses in the music room as endless! As we "play" with the Specdrums I'll be posting more uses that my students and I come up with. If you already have a Specdrum, please comment below with some ideas, or if you have any questions, please comment below. Aileen and I have created this FB group for music educators with the rings to share ideas, so please join if you're interested. Have fun!
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The perfect addition to your music room or teaching studio. Learn the parts of the violin with our specially designed A2 poster. Designed and printed in Brisbane, AustraliaStock: 250GSM GRANGE UNCOATED. Don't worry, this poster will arrive without a watermark.The construction of the violin demands a large amount of ti
