by Bonnie | Oct 13, 2013 | Classroom Organization, Money Management for Music Teachers |
As music teachers it sometimes feels as if we are SWIMMING in order forms and student money. This fall my list of orders include T-shirts, recorders, method books, field trip money, field trip lunch money, choir shirts, performance DVDs, and choir pictures. The...
by Bonnie | Sep 23, 2013 | Meter, Music Literacy
It has been a crazy busy couple of weeks in my world and almost none of the busy has had anything to do with school….. 🙂 Be that as it may, my students and I have been steadily working on reviewing all of the things that we learned last year….. reviewing...
by Bonnie | Sep 8, 2013 | anchor charts, Music Classroom Resources
My 5th graders and I developed this anchor chart as part of our lesson on I-IV-V chords. After we built a version of this chart, we sorted our boom whackers into I-IV-V chords and accompanied ourselves while we sang “This land is your land”. I’m...
by Bonnie | Sep 4, 2013 | music teacher encouragement, Reflections and Caveats
Spring 2002 – 2nd year of teaching with my co-teacher Meredith Leblanc…. We were trying for the “American Gothic” look This is my 15th year of teaching general music. This year I began teaching at my 3rd school and the changes have made me...
