Ukulele in the Classroom – Part One
Ukulele in the Classroom – Part 1
By Denise Gagne
Classroom Management Tips
One of the biggest challenges every teacher faces is classroom management. Your most challenging class might be a kindergarten class with many behavior challenges or it might be a Grade 5 class with attitude. In this newsletter, I’m sharing some tips that have helped me with classroom management.
Groundhog Day Composing Activity
I should have written this newsletter on Sunday, but inspiration hits when it hits, so I'm sending this out in hopes that it will be useful to some of you tomorrow!
Elementary Choral Music
Finding music for your elementary choir that will be a wonderful musical experience for the students, good performance piece for concerts, challenging but not too difficult, is always hard and takes a lot of time! In this newsletter, I want to highlight some of the pieces that I've used with Grade 3-5 choirs that has worked well for me. Where possible I've included YouTube links, because seeing a choir perform a piece well can be helpful in choosing material for your choirs.
Boomwhackers? What do you do with them????
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Fall Rhythms Assessment
Fall Rhythms Assessment
Focus and Fun for Your Choir
I got an email this week: I am looking for some game/ activities I can use for a choir grade 1-6 ( together) that will be interesting and hold the students attention. I am subbing and lesson plans are thin. So I was wondering if you could suggest something. Thank you G
Best Fundraising Idea Ever!
The best fundraiser that I’ve ever done was to make school Christmas CDs. We recorded each class singing one song, compiled it onto a CD and sold it to parents for $15. It was a great gift for grandparents --- many parents bought 3 CDs so they could keep one and give 2 as gifts. I still have parents who tell me that they listen to this CD (and the tapes before them) each Christmas --- and the first one that I recorded was more than 20 years ago. Just this week at a community fundraiser, a parent of a student I taught in the early 1990's told me they'd just come across the CD and how many memories it brought back.
Differentiation in the Music Class
Integration of special needs students into the regular classroom is the norm today. We can have a wide range of abilities and behaviors in every class that we teach. Most districts now require that we include options for differentiation in our lessons.
Movement Activities
Movement Activities
by Denise Gagne