--- title: Teaching with Musicplay (18) description: Elementary music lesson planning, Teaching tips and updates from the Musicplay team! (18) --- [![musicplay-logo](https://blog.musicplay.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/musicplay-logo-2.png?width=2701&height=877&name=musicplay-logo-2.png "musicplay-logo")](http://musicplay.ca) Open main menu Close main menu # Teaching With Musicplay ##### Sign up for email notifications. New blog post weekly! [Sign up Here!](https://marketing.musicplay.ca/newsletter-sign-up-form) Select Category Assessment Blog Posts Boomwhacker Bucket Drumming Choral Classroom Management Games and Centers Holidays and Special Days Lesson Planning Literacy and Music Programs and Musicals Recorder Vocal Development What's New with Musicplay [Blog Posts](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) ### [Halloween Music Lesson – Old Mother Witch](https://blog.musicplay.ca/halloween-music-lesson-old-mother-witch) Oct 22, 2017, 11:18:26 AM **Toronto Musicplay Workshop – Nov. 5-6, 2017** [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/halloween-music-lesson-old-mother-witch) ![](https://blog.musicplay.ca/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/000-Kids-playing-1024x513-1.png) [Blog Posts,](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) [Bucket Drumming](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/bucket-drumming) ### [Easy Bucket Drumming](https://blog.musicplay.ca/easy-bucket-drumming) Sep 3, 2017, 3:15:20 AM Bucket drumming is a really engaging activitiy for your music classes. It’s inexpensive to equip a classroom with buckets and sticks, and they are easy to stack and store, so bucket drumming is an activity that’s accessible to all. [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/easy-bucket-drumming) [Blog Posts,](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) Lesson Planning ### [Musicplay – Should I Get the Digital Resource Package or Just the Website?](https://blog.musicplay.ca/musicplay-should-i-get-the-digital-resource-package-or-just-the-website) Aug 10, 2017, 1:59:44 AM I received a question this week, and think this is a good forum to post my answer. [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/musicplay-should-i-get-the-digital-resource-package-or-just-the-website) [Blog Posts](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) ### [Outdoor Music Classes](https://blog.musicplay.ca/outdoor-music-classes) Jun 17, 2017, 5:34:44 AM We’re down to the last 2 weeks of school for Canadian teachers, and this can be a tough 2 weeks to get through. Taking your classes outside can give you some welcome sunshine and fresh air, and give you an opportunity to do some activities that don’t work as well inside. I’d suggest that outside to save your voice from vocal strain, you use a portable microphone. You can order a Chattervox online – [http://www.chattervox.com](http://www.chattervox.com). (Themes doesn’t sell them any longer) .  If you don’t wear a microphone, consider taking a coach’s whistle with you and develop some hand signals with your class. [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/outdoor-music-classes) ![](https://blog.musicplay.ca/hubfs/Screenshot%202023-06-28%20at%208.47.15%20AM.png) [Blog Posts](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) ### [Inspiring the Teacher](https://blog.musicplay.ca/inspiring-the-teacher) Apr 23, 2017, 9:18:00 AM Teaching is a giving profession.  Lawyers and accountants get to bill by the hour.  Ha!  If teachers got to bill by the hour, we'd all be billionaires.  I love the post that comes around that says teachers should get paid like babysitters - and ends up showing that if we were paid like babysitters, we'd make a LOT more money than a teacher's salary.   [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/inspiring-the-teacher) [Blog Posts,](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) Classroom Management ### [Get Kids Moving, Learning, Behaving](https://blog.musicplay.ca/get-kids-moving-learning-behaving) Apr 9, 2017, 2:41:24 PM | July 24-25, 2017 – **Artie and Denise Workshop #8** in Las Vegas, NV REGISTER online!  [USA teachers](http://shop.musicplaytext1.ihoststores.com/productinfo.aspx?productid=W-43) .                 [Canadian Teachers](http://shop.musicplaytext.ihoststores.com/productinfo.aspx?productid=W-43) | | --- | [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/get-kids-moving-learning-behaving) [Blog Posts,](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) Lesson Planning ### [Dynamics Lesson Plan for Spring](https://blog.musicplay.ca/dynamics-lesson-plan-for-spring) Apr 2, 2017, 6:15:20 AM **Dynamics Lesson Plan for K-5 Music Classes** [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/dynamics-lesson-plan-for-spring) [Blog Posts,](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) [Assessment,](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/assessment) Lesson Planning ### [Musicplay K-5 Synopsis – What Does Musicplay Teach?](https://blog.musicplay.ca/musicplay-k-5-synopsis-what-does-musicplay-teach) Mar 31, 2017, 6:44:57 AM I had an email question from a teacher this week. She needed to give a synopsis of what she teaches in each grade to her principal. She asked if I had a synopsis of what’s taught in Musicplay, and I had never written it in this format. So here’s the synopsis. Of course how much you’re able to teach depends on the time allotted for music, the experiences your students come with, and a myriad of other factors. With Musicplay you treat the teacher’s guide like a menu – choose the song, choose the activities. If you do all the “core” activities, you will complete what’s in the synopsis with your students. [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/musicplay-k-5-synopsis-what-does-musicplay-teach) [Blog Posts](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) ### [Is Teaching Harder Now than it was 40 Years Ago?](https://blog.musicplay.ca/is-teaching-harder-now-than-it-was-40-years-ago) Mar 26, 2017, 7:08:05 AM **Is Teaching Harder Now than 40 years ago?** [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/is-teaching-harder-now-than-it-was-40-years-ago) [Blog Posts,](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) Classroom Management ### [Bullying in the Music Room](https://blog.musicplay.ca/bullying-in-the-music-room) Mar 14, 2017, 4:44:07 AM March 11, 2017 Musicplay Newsletter [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/bullying-in-the-music-room) [16](https://blog.musicplay.ca/page/16) [17](https://blog.musicplay.ca/page/17) [18](https://blog.musicplay.ca/page/18) [19](https://blog.musicplay.ca/page/19) [20](https://blog.musicplay.ca/page/20) ##### Sign up for email notifications. 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