This December has been pretty busy, between preparation for the school-wide singalong (which is tomorrow), my choir concert (which was last week), and Christmas shopping (which is constant!) Still, I wanted to take some time for my five favorite pins of December! Those of you who are teacher bloggers, feel free to link up! Directions are listed at the bottom of this post. Here are my five favorite pins of the month: #1: How to Read Music Visual How cute is this? I plan on printing this out and posting it in my room. It would be especially beneficial to my band and recorder students. If you click…
Last night, after my fifteen-month-old daughter Macy woke up in the middle of the night (which doesn't usually happen), and then she was coughing every fifteen seconds (poor thing!), I had a hard time falling back asleep...not only because I was worried about her, but because I was thinking of everything I had to do! In order to fall back asleep last night, I had to calm myself down by organizing my thoughts. As I was calming myself down, I thought this might be a good blog entry. In many ways, I am not by nature an organized person. I am organized in my teaching, but if you ever saw the i…
A few weeks ago, I found a pin on Pinterest that I thought was really cute for classroom teachers: I wondered if there was a way I could adapt this idea to rhythm. I was excited when I found foam turkeys on Oriental Trading . When they came in the mail, each set looked like this: They actually came with one more smaller paper plate, but I discovered that overlapping and then gluing paper plates together was much harder than it looked, so I turned it into a one-paper-plate craft! After gluing all the parts on, the turkeys looked like this: Each turkey came with six feathers, but I only used five. F…
A few weeks ago, I found a pin on Pinterest that I thought was really cute for classroom teachers: I wondered if there was a way I could adapt this idea to rhythm. I was excited when I found foam turkeys on Oriental Trading . When they came in the mail, each set looked like this: They actually came with one more smaller paper plate, but I discovered that overlapping and then gluing paper plates together was much harder than it looked, so I turned it into a one-paper-plate craft! After gluing all the parts on, the turkeys looked like this: Each turkey came with six feathers, but I only used five. F…
A few weeks ago, I found a pin on Pinterest that I thought was really cute for classroom teachers: I wondered if there was a way I could adapt this idea to rhythm. I was excited when I found foam turkeys on Oriental Trading . When they came in the mail, each set looked like this: They actually came with one more smaller paper plate, but I discovered that overlapping and then gluing paper plates together was much harder than it looked, so I turned it into a one-paper-plate craft! After gluing all the parts on, the turkeys looked like this: Each turkey came with six feathers, but I only used five. F…
I've been so busy lately participating in the linky parties of other teachers that I forgot about my own! Here goes my monthly linky party, this time for my five favorite pins of November. If you are a teacher blogger and would like to participate, see the link-up directions at the bottom of this post. #1: Before John was a Jazz Giant I love children's literature, and I love jazz, so I was super excited when I found this book on Pinterest! The illustrations are beautiful (by Sean Qualls, the illustrator of Dizzy , another jazz book) and the text looks poetic. I just bought my copy (you ca…
Today, I'm excited to be joining Lindsay Jervis' linky party, to blog about autumn manipulatives for rhythm writing! I just love the dollar shelves at Target, not just for fun goodies for my daughters, but for teaching! Recently, I found bags of pumpkins, gourds, acorns, and leaves and decided I had to use them in my classroom! I bought seven bags and stored them in fun buckets I also found at Target, like this: Then I used them in learning centers with my first graders. They just learned ta and ti-ti, so at one of the centers, the students found the two buckets. Then, they emptied the b…
Today, I'm excited to be joining Lindsay Jervis' linky party, to blog about autumn manipulatives for rhythm writing! I just love the dollar shelves at Target, not just for fun goodies for my daughters, but for teaching! Recently, I found bags of pumpkins, gourds, acorns, and leaves and decided I had to use them in my classroom! I bought seven bags and stored them in fun buckets I also found at Target, like this: Then I used them in learning centers with my first graders. They just learned ta and ti-ti, so at one of the centers, the students found the two buckets. Then, they emptied the b…
Today, I'm excited to be joining Lindsay Jervis' linky party, to blog about music manipulatives! To read Lindsay's blog as well as the blogs of other music educators, just click on the picture above! I just love the dollar shelves at Target, not just for fun goodies for my daughters, but for teaching! Recently, I found bags of pumpkins, gourds, acorns, and leaves and decided I had to use them in my classroom! I bought seven bags and stored them in fun buckets I also found at Target, like this: Then I used them in learning centers with my first graders. They just learned ta and ti-ti, …
Once again, I'm excited to join the Blog Hoppin' Linky Party, this time to blog about new ideas! Often, when I get new ideas, it's from collaborating and sharing with other teachers. I have a few friends in my district who I absolutely love bouncing ideas off of. Whether we are chatting about something we tried in our classrooms, or something we are thinking about trying, we can share ideas without fear of judgment. I encourage you to find a friend who teaches the same subject/ grade level as you do, and share ideas with them! Here are three new organizational/ management ideas: #1:…
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