2nd grade
I am so very excited about the singing going on in 2nd grade this year. They just sing beautifully! I'm excited about how sweetly they sing because if their sound is sweet now, then hopefully we can continue to build a nice sound the rest of the time they are in...
Vocal Rest!
The best and hardest thing to do when you are a music teacher is to maintain a rested voice. I am happy to say that now that I'm on Spring Break, I can rest my voice for a few days. This is good because my voice was in desperate need of silence! The best money that...
Spring 2011
The one thing that is never new about school is that the Spring makes the Fall seem like a leisure stroll. I sometimes blame this business on all what we refer to as the "spring testing season". So now in school we have football season, basketball season and testing...
FATIGUE!
Now that we are starting school again this year.... rest becomes critical. Just the comparatively simple task of teacher inservice and room set up can over tax us when we've been "summering" all summer long. I'm writing about this because I think the last time I was...