by Bonnie | Sep 24, 2012 | Education Through Music, music teacher encouragement, Professional Collaboration, Professional Development, Reflections and Caveats, Teaching Music 101
As we move into middle and late September let us not forget the power of name games. Most music teachers use name games extensively at the beginning of the school year in an effort to build community and as a way to get students singing. However as the demands...
by Bonnie | Sep 19, 2012 | Classroom Organization, teacher corner |
Every year I try to get better and better at organizing my room. Today I’m going to share how I overhauled my teacher corner. This was my teacher corner last year. I am somewhat bound in how I can set up the area because my computer has to be next to my...
by Bonnie | Sep 17, 2012 | 2015 Complete Word Wall, Word Wall |
So – You’ve finally found the time to go to the extra effort to create a word wall just like in everyone else’s classroom. You’ve got the words, you’ve got the letters up, you staple and staple and staple, and then you realize….....
by Bonnie | Sep 15, 2012 | FREE! Downloads!, Roadmaps and Lesson Plans |
For the first 10 years or so of teaching music I was free to use any lesson plan template that I chose. I’ll admit that mostly I just made my music plans fit on whatever was available. Then around the time that I really started thinking about what would be...
by Bonnie | Sep 12, 2012 | Book Lists, Music Classroom Library, Music Classroom Library Set-Up, Yummy Award
for September 2012 goes to Bling Blang by Woody Guthrie, Illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky This book has so much to offer a music teacher in search of a book that will exemplify great literature and great music for kinder and first grade. First – The lyrics are...
by Bonnie | Sep 10, 2012 | Book Lists, Music Classroom Library
I have joined the Pete the Cat craze! I purchased the books this summer and they are an exceptional hit with my students. They ask for these books again and again. I decided to purchase the books after I saw a video of a a music class playing an orffistrated version...
