Elementary music education

Want to make your elementary music lessons more engaging? These are ways to add more instruments to your general music lessons.

Preparing for Your First Elementary Music Teaching Job. Organized Chaos. Top 5 suggestions to help you get ready over the summer for your first elementary music job.

Check out these tips for taking a new job or switching schools as an elementary music teacher. There's a lot to do to get ready for your first elementary music teaching job !If you're looking ahead to your first job in elementary music, here are my top 5 suggestions for things to do to prepare for the most successful year possible! Get ready for back to school and set yourself up for the best year ever. #backtoschool #newteachingjob #elementarymusic

Coming up with engaging games for a middle school classroom can be daunting. They are at an age where they want to be independent, yet need some hand holding. They start the “I’m too cool for school” attitude and it can be intimidating at times when you introduce a new game or project - immediately the eye rolling takes over and you are stuck with questioning yourself. I’m here to tell you, I’VE BEEN THERE! MAKE SURE TO CHECK OUT MY AWESOME MUSIC GAMES THAT REQUIRE NO MATERIALS AND THE KIDS…

Music teachers; if your music students can't WAIT for next year's spring musical then this blog post is for you! Here are 7 musical theater activity ideas for the music classroom. Enhance your music lessons as you explore these fabulous ideas and teacher resources. 🎭🎶

Do you have a favorite rhythm game or activity to use in your music lessons? Rhythm is something that always needs review, so you can never have too many

I love when we have an Olympic year in music class. This is the second one we've celebrated since I began teaching, and we went all out! I started off by selecting 8 countries and then dividing each of my classes into 4 teams (I have 4 risers, so each riser was a team). Students in grades 4-6 participated, so there ended up being one grade level each on every team. Each day, students competed in a different Olympic event. The events we competed in were the ski jump, speed skating, curling…

Your elementary music students will have a hoppin' good time with this rhythm frog game! Students can play competatively with a partner, or individually! This is a perfect game to teach your students for those days you have a substitute in music, a class party, or just as an everyday center!