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September 15, 2019

Music Room Makeover! Room Tour 2019

I love thinking about classroom design and function. When I plan out my classroom (the bulletin boards, the general layout, where and how to store the instruments, decorative details) I always try to keep kids in mind. I want to think about how the room functions for them and how […]
June 6, 2019

Rhythm on the Wall – Content Driven Bulletin Board Ideas

I love the challenge of creating a bulletin board that excites and delights students… but I know that not everyone feels the same. For some folks, coming up with bulletin board ideas and then actually pulling out all the materials to create those displays can be a huge hassle. You […]
April 21, 2019

Decorating for a Concert in the Gym

At my school we have our musical performances in the gym. Not on a stage that’s connected to the gym, just in the open gym. Our student population is large, we don’t have a stage big enough for all the kids, and we just don’t have the option of having […]
February 26, 2017

A Holiday Moosical – Bulletin Board

This bulletin board is absolutely inspired by an amazing “kid ‘Moose-ical” for the holiday season created by the masters:  John Jacobson and John Higgins.  I did this show a couple years ago and had sooooo much fun with it.  The “Moose”ical is about Marty the Moose and his aspiration to […]
Before and After pictures of my music classroom.
September 15, 2016

Music Room Makeover! Room Tour 2016

It’s a new school year in a new school with a new set of challenges and possibilities!  As of August 2016 I am the new music teacher at Ralya Elementary School in Haslett, MI where I’ll be replacing a teacher who has been in the building for many years.  I […]
What Every Music Teacher MUST Have on their Wall!
August 4, 2016

What Every Music Teacher MUST Have on their Walls!

The last school I worked at actually had a diagram of which bulletin boards should go in which spots in the classroom.  They had a very specific expectation of WHERE and WHY something should go in a certain place.  In fact, my new teacher orientation had a full hour session […]
Ideas to dress up your bulletin boards and classroom walls.
July 29, 2016

Think Outside the Bulletin Board

There are so many things to think about when planning your classroom for the coming year.  You think about lesson plans, unit and semester plans, concerts, building-wide evaluation systems, new requirements from the state/district, new purchases, fundraising… oh and also you need to put something up on that bulletin board […]
Fast and fun way to reinforce the instrument families with your students!
April 28, 2016

Instrument Family of the Week – Rotating Bulletin Board

I’ve been spending a lot of time these last few weeks teaching students about each instrument family!  We’ve learned how to identify different instrument families by looking for clues on each instrument like a mouthpiece, strings, reeds, tubing, valves, mallets, and lots more!  I love teaching students to look for […]
Women of the Week - A bulletin board set to highlight the many musical contributions of women.
March 9, 2016

Women of the Week!

Did you know?  March is Women’s History Month!  Some really amazing and important agencies including The Library of Congress, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum joined together to help bring attention to the generations of women who […]
Easy bulletin board which gives history behind caroling and some of our favorite carols!
December 1, 2015

Celebrate Caroling!  Switchin’ Up that Bulletin Board

 It’s a super, super busy time of the year for all of us.  Between concerts, all-school sing alongs, grades, assessments, conferences, potlucks, and every other thing that comes along, who’s got time for a bulletin board!?   I’ll admit that I’m a bulletin board person… a bulletin board fanatic maybe? […]
Check out my music room makeover, 2015!
October 25, 2015

Music Room Makeover!  Room Tour 2015

I’ll just start by saying that I don’t think my classroom will ever truly be finished.  There’s always something to add, alter, improve, eliminate, decorate, or switch out.  This summer I moved from Kansas City to Lansing, Michigan and that means that EVERYTHING I had was boxed up and schlepped […]
Tips and tricks to make your bulletin boards the talk of the teachers's lounge!
August 22, 2015

Bulletin Board Best Practices – #2

If you’ve spent any amount of time on my blog you can probably tell that I’m a fan of bulletin boards.  I think that they are a wonderful way to get a student’s attention, teach new concepts, reinforce learning, inform the public, draw in other teachers and administration, connect with […]
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