by MIE | Apr 30, 2026 | Featured, Lessons |
What Makes a Wildcat Wild? from Purposeful Pathways 3 is one of those songs that gives you multiple options so you can meet your students where they are and use only what you need. Instead of a fixed sequence, you can choose what your students need and cherry-pick...
by Jennifer Shaw | Mar 17, 2026 | Featured, Lessons |
Whether it’s you or your sub, having a list of possibilities to use for your music class is reassuring and helpful to everyone. Create a framework to work within. Maybe begin with a video, followed by quiet background music while students color or do puzzles. Or...
by Jennifer Shaw | Mar 16, 2026 | Featured, Lessons |
There are times when I would rather go to school and push through feeling lousy than make sub-plans. Our subs are typically not musicians or music teachers. And on top of it all, our students need us to be there to pull out barred instruments and other classroom...
by Jennifer Shaw | Sep 7, 2024 | Building Your Classroom Instrumentarium, Featured |
I have walked into classrooms that have 40 triangles but only 10 strikers, an entire box full of shekeres in 3 different sizes, and jingle bells to outfit the entire school, but not one decent hand drum or pair of claves! This has kinda been my world since jumping...
