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Use your bulletin board to teach kid about opera and explain good storytelling techniques.
September 26, 2014

What Makes a Good Opera – Character, Plot, and Setting

I feel like my students really get interested in opera once they realize some of the story lines or actually hear some of the music.  It’s just hard at first because kids aren’t used to hearing an opera singer’s voice and don’t understand all the formality.  Kids are used to hearing […]
August 30, 2014

Bring it Home – Make Music Personal!

Well, it has been four years in the making, but I’m finally feeling good about the connections that I’m creating for students when I talk about Charlie Parker.  I’ve always taught them something about Parker or at least tried to bring up his name, but since his birthday comes so […]
Five awesome things I found on Pinterest this month!
January 26, 2014

Five Favorite Pins of January – 2014

I will admit, I spend a lot of time on Pinterest browsing ideas, getting inspiration, and seeing how other teachers decorate and plan for teaching.  Pinterest can be a really great tool to help you plan for your own classroom and inspire you to try new things.  Why not share […]
Frosty the Snowman: Blog post about critical thinking, using story books, music listening activities, and more!
December 12, 2013

Critical Thinking in Frosty the Snowman

  One of my favorite songs to teach at the holiday time is Frosty the Snowman.  I teach this to second grade (I’m learning at my highly ELL school that I can only teach about half of what many of the rest of you teach because it takes many of […]
A fun video to show after teaching the fingerplay.
November 22, 2013

Film Friday – Little Bunny Foo Foo

This is one of my absolute favorite videos to show my first grade students and they LOVE to watch it.  I stumbled across this my first year of teaching and have used it ever since!  Kids love to see a song or story that THEY KNOW turned into a video […]
The Big Red Sub Binder - stocked and ready to go!
November 6, 2013

2/4 Tuesday:  Substitute Planning!

I took a personal day for a doctor’s appointment last Friday and as I was preparing for the day I hit that slump of “What should I plan for this sub…  who knows if it’s going to be a music person or not…  Ugh!”  I find it really hard to […]
If You're Happy And You Know It book to use in the music classroom!
October 28, 2013

If You’re Happy And You Know It! – Book Recommendation

This is a totally fun book!  I know that many students have the song “If You’re Happy and You Know It…” down pat before they even get to Kindergarten but not my students.  I have a high population of English Language Learners (often called ELLs) and most from low income […]
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