Teaching music elementary

If you're trying to get your fourth and fifth graders singing, Love Somebody is the best singing game for sixteenth notes + Valentine's Day!

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Organized Chaos: helping music teachers embrace the chaos of creativity through purposeful organization and simple ideas!

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If you're looking for a way to start your music class off on the right note, look no further than "Bell Ringers: Do-Now Tasks for Music Class"! This collection of do-now activities is perfect for elementary music classes, and will get your students engaged and ready to learn from the very first bell. Click to read more!

Learning the names of the treble clef lines and spaces is a basic music skill. Using workstations to practice it only makes sense. See ideas for using centers in your music classroom to teach pitch names of notes on the treble clef staff.

Books for elementary music? You can teach musical concepts in elementary music with books! In this post we have 9 book based lessons for elementary music!

Best Sol Mi Songs for the Elementary Music Classroom - Becca's Music Room

Learn how to practice rhythms with this budget-friendly and fun rhythm game in your elementary music classroom.

Do you have a favorite rhythm game or activity to use in your music lessons? Rhythm is something that always needs review, so you can never have too many

In this post, you'll learn about simple but engaging centers for your lower elementary students, plus tips and printables for you to implement them in your room when you’re ready. Read all the way through so you don't miss these resources!

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One of the fundamental aspects of music that students need to explore in general elementary music is tempo, but it can be difficult to come up with different lesson ideas to keep students engaged while giving them the practice they need. Today I want to share some of my most effective strategies and lesson ideas for teaching tempo, no matter what grade level or specific aspect of tempo I'm working with.

Not sure where to start when it comes to the first day of school in elementary music? Find out what to teach, games, lessons, ideas, and more!

Needing a music activity for kids? I've got you covered in this blog post, so, get ready! We are going to cover some music composing activities, music activity worksheets, and music composition website selections used in the music classroom. Make sure to check out the free materials throughout the blog post and let me know how it turns out in your music classroom! MUSIC LISTENING AND RESPONDING ACTIVITYOne of my favorite things I love to do with my students at the beginning of the year is to…

A new year means lots of people resolving to be more organized- this time of year makes me giddy! To get you started on the right foot this year, I've got my top 10 things for music teachers to include in their planner. How many of these do you have in your planner? All of these items are things that I have found very helpful to include in my planner and have, in most cases, been tracking in my planner for several years now with no plans to stop.

Fourth grade class wrote some terrific "sound songs". I got this idea from another music teacher. Thank you! It was a hit.

Level: Beginner to Intermediate Objective: To help build sight reading skills by reviewing notes on the staff and learning to quickly correlate notes with each other (steps, skips, etc.). A player wins when he/she has consecutive notes that either ascend or descend. Materials: Music note flashcards (Subscribe to our emails for a […]