Music in the classroom

Classroom Games and Activities for General Music | National Association for Music Education (NAfME)

Circle time song choice board! Children go up and remove the song they want and Velcro it to the "let's sing" spot!

Teaching With Jillian Starr shares tunes to help classroom management. Have you ever considered using music in the classroom for classroom management? Today, I want to talk about how I use music in my classroom to help increase my student’s ability to focus and share this awesome playlist of pump up tunes to test out in your classroom!

Are you guilty of spending HOURS in your classroom over the summer? Yeah, me too. That was pre-kid Rachel… I would change things every year, make sure everything on the walls matched perfectly, and obsess over every little detail. Insert post-kid Rachel… Now, I’ve lived and learned. I have staples that stay up in my classroom year after year so I don’t have to change much. Staples, get it? 😂 But seriously, making your classroom decor super functional will save you hours by not having to…

I am one of those people who cannot work in silence. I have always incorporated music into my classroom whether it be just for background noise, or to enhance our lesson plan. A few years ago I sub…

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My Music Class: Music Monsters

Awesome idea for sound levels in a music classroom! Definitely using this one this year!

music note

Music in the Classroom

This is agreat activity for kindergarten to first grade, to introduce them to making music! This game allows you to encourage your child’s interest in music in a fun and entertaining way. How to: create symbols and denote the sounds they mean. For example, a star symbol means clap, a circle means stomp your feet, a triangle means hit the desk, and a square means snap your fingers. Then let the children display their music on the board while the others follow the notes to create the music!

What you put on your classroom walls should reflect what you teach. Read this article to get suggestions about what to post, how, and why!