Music teacher ideas

Lego is such a brilliant toy! Teachers often use it to teach maths and so it’s also an excellent way to teach rhythm and notation with these lego beats music manipulatives. How To Use Lego Music Manipulatives Younger children find the chunky ‘Duplo’ easier to manage so it’s best to start off […]

I love when we have an Olympic year in music class. This is the second one we've celebrated since I began teaching, and we went all out! I started off by selecting 8 countries and then dividing each of my classes into 4 teams (I have 4 risers, so each riser was a team). Students in grades 4-6 participated, so there ended up being one grade level each on every team. Each day, students competed in a different Olympic event. The events we competed in were the ski jump, speed skating, curling…

When I was a girl, my music teacher used wooden blocks to illustrate this concept. I like the wall chart, too. In my case, Id add british note value names to it, also: quaver, minim, etc.

...enhanced learning through tactile means. Here are a few of the most frequently used music manipulatives in my elementary classroom...

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

DIY Light Up Staff Board, treble clef display. Bright and fun way to learn treble clef lines and spaces names. Music teacher hack.

Organized Chaos: helping music teachers embrace the chaos of creativity through purposeful organization and simple ideas!