Incorporating science in your elementary music lessons can be a fun and effective way to engage and inspire students. By combining music with science, you can help students connect what they’re learning in your room to their classroom. I take any chance I can to make cross-curricular connections, and it doesn’t need to take a […]
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Assessing students in elementary music is important, but not always the most fun part of our jobs. In this post, we’re going to talk about types of assessments, assessment examples, and how to make assessing easy and quick. Why Keeping Data is Important So, why keep data? Well, first, how can you purposefully plan when
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Tideo is a great song to teach sixteenth notes in elementary music! There are a couple of different versions of this song, but so many different activities you can do with it! In this blog post, we’ll talk about how I use this song to teach and practice sixteenth notes in my classroom. The slides
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Assessing singing can be hard, and it wasn’t until well into my teaching career that I felt comfortable assessing it. I mean, sure, I know whether a student is using his head voice or not or whether she is matching pitch, but I struggled to find assessments that were authentic and not too boring. Over the years, I’ve found some ways of assessing that I really enjoy that I wanted to share with you! My hope is that you can take at least one of these tips and make assessing singing in your elementary music room easier!
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I feel like elementary music teachers either prefer teaching rhythm or melody- I definitely prefer teaching rhythm! In this post, I’ll explain how I teach sixteenth notes to my elementary music students. Sixteenth notes are fun to teach, but it took a while to acquire a toolbox of songs and resources that I could use to teach them. So today, let’s chat about the songs I’ve found!
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