Another one of the books I love to use with my younger students. This is great when you are introducing or reviewing rest in your classroom, because the cricket is....Quiet!! Like with a lot of my children's books I start with just reading the book at the end of class one day. With The Cricket… Continue reading Children’s Books & Music: The Very Quiet Cricket
Category: Rhythm
Children’s Books & Music: Goodnight Moon
I'm starting a blog post series about different lessons to incorporate Children's Books into the music classroom. This first lesson comes from the book Goodnight Moon. Goodnight Moon With all my book lesson I like to just read the book the first day. I take the last 5-10 minutes of class and read the book… Continue reading Children’s Books & Music: Goodnight Moon
Ickle Ockle
This lesson is great for teaching or reviewing all sorts of things in the music room. I have used it with 1st-3rd graders depending on what my goals were for the lesson. This year we are using it at the beginning of 2nd grade for all sorts of review. We start by learning the song… Continue reading Ickle Ockle
Star Unit…Part 1
I have been working on this “unit” in my classroom for many years. Tweaking lessons, adding things, and trying new stuff out. This year I finally felt like I found a set of lessons that clicked with my students and the goals that I set out for them to learn. I have loved doing this… Continue reading Star Unit…Part 1
I Got a Letter
I love this song for sooo many reasons. It has a great feel to the song and you can cover so much curriculum across a bunch of different grade levels. Basically the main concepts that I worked on with my students were Low La, Whole Notes, and Improvisation. FREE lesson plan for this song: I… Continue reading I Got a Letter
Mallets, Music, Movement and More 