--- title: Teaching with Musicplay | Blog Posts (8) description: Blog Posts | Elementary music lesson planning, Teaching tips and updates from the Musicplay team! (8) --- [![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 Posts about: ## Blog Posts (8) [Blog Posts](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) ### [Name Games and Activities to start the school year](https://blog.musicplay.ca/name-games-and-activities-to-start-the-school-year) Sep 9, 2019, 7:45:24 AM | | | --- | [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/name-games-and-activities-to-start-the-school-year) [Blog Posts,](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) Lesson Planning ### [Teaching Tip – Year Plans](https://blog.musicplay.ca/teaching-tip-year-plans) Aug 6, 2019, 9:53:47 AM [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/teaching-tip-year-plans) [Blog Posts,](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) Lesson Planning ### [Teaching Tip – Monthly Outlines and Weekly Lessons](https://blog.musicplay.ca/teaching-tip-monthly-outlines-and-weekly-lessons) Aug 6, 2019, 9:48:41 AM [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/teaching-tip-monthly-outlines-and-weekly-lessons) [Blog Posts,](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) Classroom Management ### [Summer Reading for Music Teachers](https://blog.musicplay.ca/summer-reading-for-music-teachers) Jun 30, 2019, 7:13:29 AM [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/summer-reading-for-music-teachers) [Blog Posts](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) ### [Review, Request and Song Logs](https://blog.musicplay.ca/review-request-and-song-logs) Jun 21, 2019, 5:02:50 AM ## **Review and Request** The last week of school, I really enjoy doing review and request. I ask the students to brainstorm a list of their favorite songs, singing games and activities from the school year.   If they forget what songs they’ve done, scroll through the song list at Musicplayonline.com to help them remember — or if you’ve kept a song log (see below) use the song log to help them remember all the songs/activities learned. [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/review-request-and-song-logs) [Blog Posts](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) ### [Campfire Songs](https://blog.musicplay.ca/campfire-songs) Jun 17, 2019, 4:28:25 AM Lots of your students will spend some time in the summer camping.As the weather warms up and you’re thinking about summer, campfire songs make a nice unit.  In my view, campfire songs are songs that are familiar, that you may have sung at summer camp, and that are easy for all ages to sing along with.  There are lots and lots of songs at [www.musicplayonline.com](http://www.musicplayonline.com/) to use as campfire songs. And don’t hesitate to use Kumbaya in K, with a Grade 3 class.  These songs are timeless and ageless. [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/campfire-songs) [Blog Posts,](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) [Bucket Drumming,](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/bucket-drumming) Boomwhacker ### [Outside Games & Recorder Composition](https://blog.musicplay.ca/outside-games-recorder-composition) Jun 11, 2019, 5:59:05 AM [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/outside-games-recorder-composition) [Blog Posts,](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) [Assessment,](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/assessment) [Choral](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/choral) ### [Performance Assessments](https://blog.musicplay.ca/performance-assessments) Jun 3, 2019, 8:22:48 AM Are you doing assessments for your end of the year report cards?  One of the areas that I want to assess is how well children perform music in choirs, Orff ensemble, on unpitched instruments, recorder, ukulele or guitar. [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/performance-assessments) [Blog Posts,](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) [Assessment](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/assessment) ### [Timbre Assessments](https://blog.musicplay.ca/timbre-assessments) May 27, 2019, 9:28:29 AM [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/timbre-assessments) [Blog Posts](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts) ### [Talent Shows](https://blog.musicplay.ca/talent-shows) May 21, 2019, 8:32:27 AM The Grandview Elementary School talent show was an annual event that had the most amazing array of talent.  We had a 12 year old world champion double baton twirler, and a young world class tumbler, who worked with Cirque de Soleil after he graduated.    We also had many karate kata performances, dance solos, and one spectacularly cringe worthy recorder performance.  We had piano solos, including one seven year old that could play Mozart piano sonatas. This school had about 350 children, and the entire school attended the performance in the gym.   In our school the talent show was held on one of the last days of school.  There was no time limit on it, but if it was longer than 90 minutes the children in the audience would get restless.   [Denise Gagne](https://blog.musicplay.ca/author/denise-gagne) [Read More](https://blog.musicplay.ca/talent-shows) [6](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts/page/6) [7](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts/page/7) [8](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts/page/8) [9](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts/page/9) [10](https://blog.musicplay.ca/tag/blog-posts/page/10) ##### Sign up for email notifications. New blog post weekly! 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