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April 24, 2016

Surviving the End of the School Year

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I know it seems a bit crazy that I'm writing about the end of the school year on April 24, but my last day with students is May 20! (Disclaimer: I started school the second week of August, so don't be too mad at me!) Because of this, I am having to think about the end of the school year now. Here are my suggestions for surviving the end of the school year so you can have a relaxing summer, and so that you can come back at the start of school year refreshed and organized! #1: Plan out the rest of the year Since I only have four weeks left, I recently sat down and figured out exactly what…

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April 17, 2016

Five Favorite Pins of April

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Hi everyone! It is time for my five favorite pins of April! If you are a teacher blogger, feel free to join the party! Directions are at the end of the post. Here are my five favorite pins this month. To see the pin, click each picture. #1: Kids' Books That Teach Important Life Lessons This looks like a great list of picture books. Next year, my school's theme is "Bee Yourself," so I'm thinking I could take some of these books and create programs around them! (For more ideas about programs based off of children's literature, see these blog posts .) #2: Tissue box rhythms I…

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April 11, 2016

Music Teacher First Year Flashback

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Today, I'm linking up with Shelley at Pitch Publications to write about my first year of teaching. Click the picture below to read Shelley's post, as well as posts of other music bloggers! This is my seventeenth year teaching (how did that happen??) so it was fun to think back on that first year. Here goes! What subject/age and where were you teaching? I was hired to teach in the district I graduated from, and taught K-6 general music. I saw the students for 40 minutes, once a week. What was your first classroom like? I had two classrooms, at two buildings. Both were on the stage, with a…

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April 08, 2016

Third Grade Performance {The Gratitude Tree}

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Today, I am writing about a program I created for my third graders, based off the book "The Gratitude Tree" by my friend Stacey Peters (known as Expressive Monkey on TpT .) You can view this book by clicking the image below. The book is a really cute and inspiring story about a tree who thinks he's ordinary, until he realizes that every time he feels gratitude, his leaves change color! It's a great way to talk about gratitude, kindness, appreciation, etc. with your students. This blog post will include  a summary of songs and dances I used for the program, as well as scenery id…

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March 23, 2016

Three Things {Rhythm game, making instruments, and a book}

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Today, I’m reviving my "Three Things" linky party, in which I blog about three things that worked for my and my students this week. If you are a music blogger, and would like to link up with your three things, see the directions at the end of this post. Thanks to  Whimsy Workshop Teaching ,  Kimberly Geswein fonts , and  Jax and Jake  for the cute clip art and fonts! #1: Memorizing Rhythm My fifth graders are practicing syncopa right now (or eighth/ quarter/ eighth), and one of the songs they are using is "Oboshinotentoten." You can find the music notation here , and here is a vide…

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March 21, 2016

Guest Post: Music March Madness

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I'm excited to have a guest blogger today! Tamarie Sayger will be writing about an activity to build excitement for March madness and music-making!  You can read more about her at the end of this post; thanks to Tamarie for sharing her expertise! March is known for basketball mania! The Final Four is the first full week of April, so you can take advantage of all the hype the week before it begins. Run this game with all your classes the week of March 28-April 1. Why? I use this as a way to change things up a little during the middle of the spring semester. It’s supposed to be very fun and posi…

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