by Bonnie | Mar 18, 2023 | Music Classroom Resources, New Music Teacher, Professional Book Shelf, Professional Development, Reflections and Caveats, teacher corner, Uncategorized
Writing and composing have always brought me joy. While hopscotching through the extremely busy pace of teaching elementary music I have regularly found myself gleefully diving into seasons of writing or composing diligence. Its not at all surprising that these...
by Bonnie | Jan 17, 2023 | Classroom Organization, Music Classroom Set up, New Music Teacher, Professional Development, teacher corner, Uncategorized
I’ve been teaching for 24 years and I have always been terrible with paper management. Whether it is simply that I am overwhelmed by the volume of papers that cross my desk, overwhelmed by the tasks represented by each paper or simply overwhelmed, it is not at...
by Bonnie | Jan 2, 2023 | Classroom Management, Classroom Management and Discipline, Classroom Organization, Music Classroom Set up, music teacher encouragement, Next Year, Professional Development, Reflections and Caveats, seating charts, teacher corner, Tips and Tricks
Happy New Year! One of my favorite things about being a teacher is that I get two chances at each “New Year”. I get to start the new academic year each August and I get to start a new calendar year on January 1. Today I am going to share a few habits that...
by Bonnie | Jun 22, 2022 | Music Classroom Set up, teacher corner, Uncategorized
Today a younger music teacher who belongs to one of the Facebook teacher groups that I am in who is moving campuses expressed concerns about what to do first when moving to a new campus. Getting started can be overwhelming and so I thought I would reply. What you see...
by Bonnie | Jul 6, 2019 | Music Classroom Library, Reflections and Caveats, Singing with children, singing with children
This Little Light of Mine One of my FAVORITE empowering songs is “ This Little Light of Mine” When I use it, I always include a reading of the book entitle “This Little Light of Mine” illustrated by E.B. Lewis. The book includes a beautifully illustrated story of a...
by Bonnie | Nov 20, 2018 | Book Lists, Music Classroom Library, Music Classroom Resources
At the heart of my journey into blogging has been an internal focus on the use of children’s books in the music classroom. Even when I took a break from blogging to earn my masters degree, an enduring focus of my study was the use of children’s books in...
