I won’t pretend that my choir has the perfect sound, perfect attendance, perfectly behaved students, or perfect concerts, but I have a good choir culture, kids who love choir, and parents and teachers who are very happy with our choir. I have found that if my students were perfectly behaved, listened at all times, and …
My Fun Make it Take It Day
My job is crazy busy, with 42 classes a week, 2 days of early morning choir, bus duty once a week, plus lesson planning at night. so the thought of going to an all day workshop is not very enticing. When I go, I am usually glad I went and this “Make it, Take It” …
My Christmas Choir Program
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 …
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 …
Choir Music For My December Concert
I spent days looking through the JW Pepper site and listening to music. I LOVE that they have clips for many songs! After selecting tons of great pieces, some which I am ordering for next year (too many great songs), I found what I think is a good program. I try to balance sacred, secular, …
