Tag: elementary general music
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Tennis balls are bouncing their way into music class!
Music teachers keep your eye on the ball! Here are 4 GRAND-SLAM ideas for using tennis balls in the elementary music classroom! 1. Beat-Keeping With your littlest musicians, there are never enough ways to enforce keeping a steady beat! Here are some ways you can achieve this with tennis balls! 2. Movement As music teachers,…
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Music Education Activities To Celebrate The Magic of Winter!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Music teachers get ready. Your music students are going to be in the winter holiday ZONE soon – and you need activities to keep them ENGAGED and learning! Check out these ESSENTIAL music education activities to invigorate your music room through Christmas, snow days, New Years, Valentine’s…
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Music Education Resources that you can Download for FREE!!!
Nothing in life is free…EXCEPT for these AWESOME music education resources! Check them out today!!!! 1. This is the PERFECT ACTIVITY for the first day of school or first day of a cycle! Looking for a way to get to know your students on day one? Check out this awesome activity, “My Musical Identity!” Your…
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Powerful music history lessons that will provoke curiosity.
Music history can be dry. Rote memorization of the big names and important pieces can be downright painful, especially for younger students who have not yet had their interest for music history piqued. Here are some cool ways to inspire your music students to WANT to learn about music history. 1. Start with more RECENT…
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Insider Tips to Make Your School Concert the Talk of the Town.
It’s that time of year again. Time to PLAN FOR THE CONCERT!!! Whether you teach chorus, band, or general music, there are some tips that any music teacher can follow to ensure success! Here are some tips for planning MEMORABLE school concerts that students, parents, and administrators will love! 1. Choose Concert Rep CAREFULLY When…
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Did you know that misbehavior can inspire SPECTACULAR music lessons?
Hear me out…. some of my BEST music lessons have come from watching student “misbehavior,” and this is my plea for YOU to consider letting student misbehavior inspire your lesson ideas. First, a story about hula-hoops: As a new teacher with a donated set of hula hoops, my original lesson idea was to scatter the…
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Innovative Songwriting Strategies to Enrich your Music Class
“Just start songwriting!” said the music teacher to a class full of scared, confused, and overwhelmed middle schoolers. Big surprise – it did NOT work. Teaching songwriting is COMPLICATED. The possibilities are ENDLESS and students often don’t even know where to begin. To curb this challenge, music teachers need to scaffold their songwriting lessons so…
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POWERFUL Social-Emotional Learning Activities for the Music Classroom
Students today are facing challenges that we teachers can’t fully imagine. They are growing up in a post-pandemic, social-media saturated, rapidly changing world. Now more than EVER, we need to give these children skills to cope with these new and evolving obstacles. Here are some ways to incorporate social-emotional lessons into music class. Project Idea…
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Indispensable advice for auditioning your music students.
Auditioning is stressful for students of any age. As a music teacher, there are some some things that you can do to help your students with this process. Here are some ideas! Tip #1: Make sure students know EXACTLY what will be asked of them at the audition. Not only does this give your students…
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SPELLBINDING Music Class Activities to Embrace the Magic of Autumn!
The taste of pumpkin spice lattes. The smell of fallen leaves and bonfires. The excitement of the impending holidays in the air. As Autumn creeps into the last days of summer – we music teachers can begin to consider music class activities to embrace the MAGIC of the season! Here are some AWESOME project ideas…