I spend a lot of time before every season listening and looking at music to try to make a balanced program that the kids will like, the parents will like and that we can handle. Since last spring, I haven’t had any help with a 65 piece choir, so I have to really be sure …
My Theme for the Year- finally done- I Am a bucket Filler
When I saw the clipart from DJ Inkers of character words, I instantly knew that I wanted to use it for my theme this year. I spent a good portion of the summer working on it and after researching how to make it all work together, I came upon the Bucket filler idea. It was …
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A New Year and Team Building
I am doing a whole character theme for the year and will write about it soon but I wanted to first write about our first day activity that has been so fun. In every class, we are singing the song “Make New Friends” as a team building song, as well as for encouraging the kids …
Outer Space Around the Universe Behavior/Reward Chart
For a friend, I made this Outer Space Around the Universe Behavior/Reward Chart. If you already have my Around the World Behavior Chart, this one includes some outer space background you can print out, as well as 15 new aliens, spaceships, or Star Wars characters to use with it. Maybe I’ll do an outer space …
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Recorder Mega Pack Finally Done
After 4 years of work, I finally have my whole recorder system on paper and ready to go. I work at a low income school and have developed my system so that every student gets a black belt (9 belts with 24 songs) and many go way beyond. A big reason why they do this …
Parchutes and Ribbons and Scarves, Oh My– A fun book with listening activities
I just discovered the book, “Parachutes and Ribbons and Scarves, Oh My!” at the end of the year and had a blast during the last week of school, when the other teachers are cleaning and having parties with their kids. We talked about form, listened to great music and did a really fun activities using …
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The Phonics Song and Game
My kids love to sing the Phonics song, a folksong from Alabama, but I made a new rhythm game to go with it last year and finally wrote it all down including promethean flipchart and JPEG”S to make a smartboard chart. It always makes ti-tiki and tiki-ti the kids’ favorite rhythm that they’ll never forget. …
April Fool’s Day
I wanted to do something fun to do for April Fool’s Day. A fellow teacher gave me this song: https://www.msu.edu/~eulenber/John/Songs/April%20Fool%20Song%20with%20lyrics.pdf A fellow teacher on Facebook suggested the following as a musical joke. I am going to try it with my choir tomorrow morning. Tell them you are teaching them a new warmup. Oh-wa-ta-foo-li-am. Slowy at …
Dancing Ribbons Rings
Mrs King always has the most creative projects she makes over the summer. I am linking up with a wonderful post she wrote about singing rocks. I saw a post on Pinterest last year and bought wooden rings and ribbon. It took FOREVER for the ribbon to come. So… I made them this weekend. I …
A fun game in honor of March Madness
I made this in honor of march madness. It would be a fun thing to do to review songs you want to get better. I am giving this away in honor of getting to my goal of TPT followers. PLEASE take the time to follow my TPT store and to rate this if you like …
