Teaching Music

I'm really lucky to be able to work doing what I love. This page is about the things I do with my music classes, stuff I try from pinterest and teaching blogs, and the teaching world in general. 

This is a totally random pumpkin pie I made for Thanksgiving. --->

<---  7th and 8th grade St. Louis Suburban Honors Choir!

Just found out that there will be an all-suburban upper elementary honors choir next year! WOOT! I can't wait for the fun.

Classroom Tour!

 Sharp Pencils and Flat Pencils, an idea from pinterest. ---->

Also from pinterest, are my good news notes for kids that do an exceptional job. I have a tape dispenser by them because kids like to wear them as bracelets....apparently this is cool.

 <--- The front of my room! Everything you see was made of the following items:

• Disposable table cloths
• wrapping paper from Target's $1 bins
• a zebra-striped shopping bag
• crumpled paper
• fabric from a thrift store

You never know what you can find to work with. 




The back of my room! --->

• Once again, I used the disposable table-cloths (lime green backdrop). I bought these from the dollar tree. 
• The trees are made of crumpled brown paper from the teacher's lounge. 
• The leaves on the wall are green felt from a thrift store. 
• The hanging vines are made of crumpled brown paper that was twisted. in each class, students made a vine. They wrote get-to-know-you stuff on each leaf and then we hung their vines. It's still really cute to me when they try to hunt for their leaf among their class' vine.

We just finished a piano unit....I can't even begin to explain my excitement when I opened our back storage room and found all these Yamaha and Casio keyboards! It was like Christmas! The students loved this unit and we have come a long way with note reading. 

<--- This is something else from Pinterest. The kids can move up the piano for days when they have good behavior in class. When you have 14 classes of students, it's nice to have something like this rather than a bunch of marble jars. Also, kids get a visual on where they stand with other classes and they like to race each other to get to the end.

I'm definitely a fan.










Until next time music world....