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October 27, 2014

Songs and Activities for Halloween Week

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Since it's the week of Halloween, I thought I'd blog about activities and songs I'm doing this week! I'll be honest, I haven't always done many holiday activities in my music classroom. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, and I love dark, spooky music. However, in the past, I've had some classes on one lesson while other classes were four lessons behind because of my schedule (with some classes coming Monday and Friday and some classes coming Tuesday and Thursday, it's easy to not be on the same lesson!) Now with my new block schedule (which I will blog about …

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October 25, 2014

On the day you were born: Performance ideas

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This week was pretty busy and stressful, as my fifth graders performed their program, "On the day you were born" on Thursday. I have to say, though, that this was one of my favorite performances of my career. Part of it is that I've had these students since first grade. Part of it is that I just loved the material I chose for the program (and so did the kids, which doesn't happen all the time with fifth grade!) So I thought I'd share which songs and dances I did with the program, and other performance details, in case you would like to perform it as well. I should start b…

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October 18, 2014

Interactive Notebooks in the Music Room

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So in the last few months, I have heard a lot about interactive notebooks in the grade-level classroom. Out of curiosity, I clicked on a few listings on Teachers Pay Teachers to check them out. I found math and language arts notebooks, and thought, "Eh, I don't think this could be adapted for the music classroom." Let's face it, we get so little time with them as it is, how would we have time for notebooks too? Then a few weeks ago, I found this blog post on the TpT site, through the newsletter, and again read it out of curiosity. There were some interesting points about how …

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October 14, 2014

Five Favorite Pins of October

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Hi everyone! It's been quite a while since I did a "five favorite pins" post, so here goes! Here is my list for this month; just click each picture to view that pin. #1: Free Ipad Apps for Classroom Management This blog post has several different iPads apps that are not only great for classroom management, but are FREE! #2: 21 Books about Farm Animals I love using children's books about animals for vocal exploration, so I'm excited to check these books out! #3: Make-believe in the music room Lori from Sweet Sounds offers lots of great strategies to make Kindergarten music lesso…

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October 02, 2014

Variety in assessment

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My district has been focusing on formative assessment strategies for years, and for that,  I am very grateful. We as teachers have been provided with tons of professional development about the topic of assessment, with strategies to gauge understanding and adapt instruction. One "a-ha" moment I had on my own, though, without reading an article or hearing anything about it at a meeting, is the idea of variety. While I had heard about providing various formative and summative assessments to students, my "a-ha" moment was about the purpose of variety. The purpose for variety be…

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September 12, 2014

Five Teaching Tips for Music Centers

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Even though I've been doing centers for a few years, I am still learning how most effectively to run a centers lesson in my music room. I've written a few blog posts about centers, which you can read here , but thought I'd offer five tips for doing centers in your music classroom. #1: Think about noise This week, I've been using materials from my fourth grade centers set, shown below: Two of the centers--the solfa manipulatives center and the instruments center--depend on students being able to hear. Here are a couple pictures of these centers: I knew they both involved being able …

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August 21, 2014

Thoughtful Discussions in Music Class

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This past summer, I was fortunate enough to take a class through my district about making thinking visible. We use the word "think" a lot, but it wasn't until this class that I really thought about what thinking means! While I'm not an expert in the area of making thinking visible, I'm going to write about a discussion I had with my first and second graders that I found very insightful. When I took this course, I read the book "Making Thinking Visible." The book can be viewed on Amazon by clicking on the picture below. It is a wonderful read! While I read many of…

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August 05, 2014

My Music Room Set-Up`

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Today I am very excited to blog about my music room set-up for this year! (Thanks to Dancing Crayon Designs , KG fonts , and Sassy Designs for the cute fonts and graphics!) So this year, since our school-wide theme is "Out of this world," I decided to do a space-themed classroom. After making that decision, I got to work and created a space-themed music classroom set, which you can view by clicking on the picture below: I found a seller on Etsy that makes really cute out-of-the-world signs. Here is my sign I will be posting outside my room: Isn't it cute?? You can order one for yours…

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