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

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 […]

What To Do With Behavior?

  Yesterday I taught a group of young boys and they were as energetic as one might expect. They enjoyed joking around and being silly. The question that occurred to me was: at what point does having a good time turn into being disruptive? The short answer is always when the students are not learning […]

Beginning of the Year Activities

Happy New School Year!!

Happy first weeks of school everyone! Some of you have already started and others will be starting soon. It is a busy time! I have started teaching the children’s choir, but will really get going on September 8the due to initial assessments and “no school” days. In preparation as the Music Literacy Specialist, I have […]

Learning Centers

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Games

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 […]

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 […]

Rhythm Charades

As promised, here is another literacy skills packed lesson that is fun and easy to do! It can be done in the first 10 min of class or have it last the whole time!! It takes charades to a whole new level and has so many versions, that your kids won’t get bored! Rhythm Charades […]