RESOURCES

Teaching elementary music takes more than great lessons—you need practical ideas for everything that happens in between. Teaching also means having lots of ideas—and knowing what to use when. Our Resources page is your Go-To Toolkit, filled with practical activities, strategies, and teaching tools for the entire year. Explore ideas for running your classroom, creating learning centers, managing transitions and having fun games and activities ready when your students need something to do. This page will be here for making music teaching easier, more engaging, and more fun.

And this is just the beginning! I’ll be adding new ideas, activities, and practical teacher tips regularly, so check back often. My goal is to keep building a collection of resources you can turn to whenever you need a fresh idea, a little inspiration, or a solution to one of those “What am I going to do with them today?” moments.

Warm Ups

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Teacher to Teacher

We Build Better Brains!!

Parents do not always recognize what we do or realize the impact it has on their child’s learning, so I crafted this article for our parents to let them in on what all of us know ~ we build better brains! I share this with you not only as a bit of inspiration…after all, I […]

Keep Your Boys Engaged!

I just finished teaching a small group of boys and it is clear that they need to move around and/ or use their hands!! As I researched gender differences in the classroom, it is astonishing to me that we still teach in a manner that requires kids to sit most of the day! We are […]

Keep A Teacher Journal

A couple of years ago I decided I was going to keep a journal while I taught that year. I wanted to chronicle what went on in my classes and use it to help further lesson planning. Well, as you can imagine, time became an issue. Like many of us, the required tasks of the year got […]

Beginning of the Year Activities

Name Game Extended

As the new year gets under way, names can be an issue, especially for those of you working with transient populations. As I have stated in the past, I love doing name games in the beginning of year…and throughout the year for the little ones. Kids love the sound of their name and it helps […]

5 Whimsical Activities For A Great Start To Your Year!

whim·si·cal /ˈ(h)wimzik(ə)l/ Adjective playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way. “a whimsical sense of humor” synonyms: fanciful, playful, mischievous, waggish, quaint, quizzical, curious, droll, fantastical, Seussian; eccentric, quirky, idiosyncratic, unconventional, outlandish, queer, fey; informal: offbeat, freaky “a whimsical sense of humor” acting or behaving in a capricious manner. “the whimsical arbitrariness […]

Get Organized For The Year!

It is September and for many of us either school has already started or about to start! This year I am so excited to get going!! I have finally organized my home and office so that I will be ready to go! Here are a few ideas that might help! Apparently there is such a […]

Learning Centers

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Games

The “Sub It Out” Game

We are getting to that time of year when we need games!! ….ones that can go on for the whole class or for a small portion of it! Here is one that not only fills this requirement but is fun to play and will serve as a great review! Kids get into 2 teams and […]

A Young Composer Game

The NK Dice are a lot of fun, especially with the younger kids! Here is a game that is simple to play and can be used in Phase 1 of the NK Lesson Plans! • Choose a student to roll the dice with notes on it • Identify the color and match the NK Magnet […]

A Long And Short Scavenger Hunt

After your kids have had some fun with the Name Game Extended Lesson, now we can take it even a step further!!! In this lesson, students will be on the hunt for long and short objects that they can find around the room. Not only will they have a blast doing this, they will be […]