Five Favorite Pins of February

Five Favorite Pins of February

Hope you have had a wonderful February! Since it is February, I am posting my five favorite pins of this month.Here are my five favorite pins this month! You can click on each picture to be taken to the original pin.#1: Bucket Drumming 101This helpful blog post has some great suggestions for starting bucket drumming! I'm about to do a bit of it with my 4th graders, so I appreciated...

When to lesson plan

When to lesson plan

My first few years of teaching, I sat down for hours at a time, on Saturday or Sunday, and planned all my lessons for the next week…by hand. Now, having kids at home, I really prefer for my weekends to be family time, and make sure to have time during the school day or right after the school day, before I go home, to write lessons (and I do them all by computer!)I realize that some music teachers...

Fourth Grade Performance {Olivia's Birds}

Fourth Grade Performance {Olivia's Birds}

This past week, my fourth graders performed a program based on the book, "Olivia's Birds" by Olivia Bouler. The book is a really inspiring true story about an 11-year-old named Olivia who helped Audubon by donating her art to people who contributed to the Gulf Clean-Up Campaign. All of the art and text throughout the book is created by Olivia!Today, I'm blogging with a summary of songs and dances...

6 strategies for remembering 600+ names

6 strategies for remembering 600+ names

Recently, I wrote a blog post with 10 things they don't tell you about teaching elementary music, and realized I should have added one more thing to the list: that you'll have to remember hundreds of names. Certainly, no one told me that I'd have to remember so many names! One of the great things about being a music teacher is teaching so many students...but that means there are a lot of names to...