Your Name is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow and Luisa Uribe is a celebration that reminds us of the beauty, history, and magic behind names. I want to share a few name activities you can pair with this book. These would be perfect for Back to School activities, but they can be used any time of year.

We recently paid a visit to Austria during Project Around the World, and I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed the time. We did something a little different this time. We didn't pull our inspiration

So we’ve decided what we want to teach . We’ve chosen our musical materials . Now it’s time to plug it all in. Today I’m sharing how I’ve planned the first month of Kindergarten.

Take a Virtual Field Trip to the Symphony! Lesson plans and learning about instruments will be a breeze with these FREE ThingLink performances including the most common Instruments of the Orchestra and Band. Music videos include String, Woodwind, Brass, Percussion, & Keyboard families performing in various genres. Student learning is FUN with these NO-PREP teacher resources. Activities make GREAT MUSIC SUB PLANS & center ideas too. Click to see the post for more ideas #musiced #elementar

Music can be a powerful force in people's lives - especially kids. Kids books about music can introduce them to this wonderful musical world.

Classical Fun For Toddlers takes four very famous Classical tunes and makes them into fun songs with actions, movement, and imagination.

Using re usable dry erase adhesive boards (wal mart - $3.49 for 3), Ive made personalized iPods for all three grades that I teach and one for me. After giving my initial music assessments and survey, I will list each classes favorite genres. The iPods will be used throughout the year in my classroom to post genres and songs we are studying. I found the center poster last week at Five Below :)

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Do you play music in the classroom? Here's our classroom playlist of first grade greatest hits!

Books in the music classroom can be used for singing, dancing, composing, history and more! Check out this huge list of children's literature that should be on the shelves of your music classroom.