Spring…for many of us, that means that the end of the school year is right around the corner! It also means that there’s a lot of testing happening and that the kids are getting antsy! Here are some of my favorite spring lessons for elementary music!
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Alle Meine Entchen is a German song that I use for teaching and reviewing half notes to my elementary music classes. It is always fun to introduce a new language to students, and the pronunciation of this song is easy enough that even my first and second-graders can sing it pretty quickly. It’s also a great song to add to a performance!
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Self-Paced vs. whole group recorder lessons: which is better? I’ve taught recorders in a few different ways (you can read about how I teach recorders here), from whole-group to self-paced lessons. They both have pros and cons, and in this post, we’ll dive into which might work best for you and your students. Benefits of
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I started doing a self-paced recorder unit in elementary music a couple of years ago when I was tired of how I was teaching recorders. Honestly, recorders wasn’t my favorite unit until I started doing it in a self-paced way!
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Grizzly Bear is a great song to teach quarter rest and dynamics to your kindergarten, first, and second-grade elementary music students! In this post, we’ll talk about some ways you can use this song to teach quarter rest to your music students.
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