Elementary music education

Looking for engaging, musical games to play with your students? Here are a few of my favorite games and activities for elementary music classes, children's choirs, and elementary group classes.

Five fun and action-filled circle games to practice rhythm, pitch, and more with your elementary music students.

Movement lessons your fourth and fifth grade music students will want to do. These are simple & easy lessons for elementary music class.

Preparing for Your First Elementary Music Teaching Job. Organized Chaos. Top 5 suggestions to help you get ready over the summer for your first elementary music job.

Do you use scarves in your elementary music class? In this post, we’re talking all about why you should use them and some different scarf music activities that work so well in the elementary music room. My students and I had a lot of fun with scarves during social distancing and when teaching on a cart. And now, I still love using them with all types of activities.

Want to make your elementary music lessons more engaging? These are ways to add more instruments to your general music lessons.

One of the most important things we can do in music class to learn students’ names. Here's 5 fun name games for elementary music class. Learn the songs and games in this blog post. READ MORE

Check out these tips for taking a new job or switching schools as an elementary music teacher. There's a lot to do to get ready for your first elementary music teaching job !If you're looking ahead to your first job in elementary music, here are my top 5 suggestions for things to do to prepare for the most successful year possible! Get ready for back to school and set yourself up for the best year ever. #backtoschool #newteachingjob #elementarymusic

Here's the lesson plan template that I use to scaffold my lessons and explain concepts to my administrators.

It has taken me a while to put together a classroom tour but I am thrilled to have a week of school under my belt and my classroom set up and humming along! The most exciting part of my classroom setup this year is being able to get back to many of the things I haven't been able to do during the pandemic, but I have also added a few new tweaks to my room from my pre-pandemic setup too, so I'm excited to share those as well. First to give you a lay of the land, here's a quick video around the…