A Different Musician

October is one of the best times of year for an elementary music teacher! Halloween can inspire so many fun learning activities.

If you're a new teacher looking for something awesome to do with elementary students- heck, even if you're a veteran looking for something d

No instruments? Not a problem. Simple things can take you a long way!

Knowing how to keep a beat is a fundamental skill on the path to musical proficiency, and a way to get good at it is to- wait for it-...

Building singing routines into your class structure from pre-kindergarten and kindergarten is vital to helping kids find their voices,...

Mi Cuerpo is a fun, active Spanish song you can and should use in your elementary music classes! While you may have used this song...

If you're looking to begin boomwhackers in your elementary music classroom, this is a great place to start! From simple, introductory...

You've done it! You've thought of, planned, and prepped an awesome learning activity for your elementary kids. You just know they're...

At the end of the year, exhaustion and frustration can hit pretty hard. And not just on you! We're humans, it happens. But you can still...

If you're wondering how to make beginning band more meaningful to your students, I've got you. From literature to methodology, here are a...

We teachers all have hills we'd die on. And this, friends, is one of mine. Music is an academic subject area! That's easy for me to say,...

Note-naming is a foundational skill for music students. But introducing it- treble clef, in particular, where they usually start- can be...