by Bonnie | Sep 28, 2015 | Composition, FREE! Downloads!, Meter
This week my 5th graders were learning about 6/8 meter. When I teach meter, I love to have students build measures of rhythms in the meter they are studying. For our lesson this week, we used the single flagged eighth notes, but even though the lesson went...
by Bonnie | Sep 21, 2015 | Classroom Organization, Instrument Cabinet Organization
I am so very excited to say that our 3rd grade program is going to be a truly integrated partnership between music, art and PE. We are going to present music and art work from around the world and students will all get to demonstrate their skills as singers, dancers,...
by Bonnie | Sep 18, 2015 | Professional Collaboration, Professional Development, Reflections and Caveats, Teaching Music 101
It is so refreshing to have the chance to reflect about the WHY of what we do in music class! I truly enjoy talking “shop”. Getting the chance to talk about what wonderful things go on in music was the reason why I started blogging. Having to slow down...
