Fun Friday

This month's Fun Friday plan... Dance Dance Revolution!!!!

1st Graders concentrating very hard. :)

I think we need more stinky feet! Everyone loved being allowed to take their shoes off (myself included!).

Some Changes

Realized I had some majorly under-used space with the back of my piano! A little paper and copies of my kodaly hand signals later and voila! 

I have a laminated poster board where my Musician of the Day gets to write down what we learned in class. My new addition is the music topic of the day. I've decided to start having one blanket topic to cover over the course of two weeks. Each grade will work on that topic at their own level. To show the students how we continue to build and learn music, I thought I would let them know the blanket topic and challenge them to write something specific that their class learned.

This week's topic was Tempo. I forgot to take the picture before erasing what the students wrote, but some examples were 1st: Fast and Slow and 4th: Adagio and Allegro.

One of my schools let me use some money not in the music budget to buy handchimes!! My 4th and 5th graders will be using these beauties at our Winter PTO to play Jingle Bells and Joy to the World. 

I'm so excited!

Music Leaves Me Happy!

Changing seasons means changing bulletin boards!

Nice Pitch! Each softball has a solfege syllable.

I almost did "What You Autumn Know", but most of my students were not amused with my "Welcome Bach" punny board.