First posted on August 10, recopied with a few updates: In Missouri, one of our music objectives is teaching first graders about singing in head

One of the trickiest things to get kids to sing in the primary years is getting some of them in that head voice. Whether it’s

True confession time: as a former band director and one who really only sang in church choir and the bare minimum to get vocal certification,

  True confession time: I used to be an independent when it came to setting up my room. The one time I had to let

For first grade, one of the most common concepts to master is beat competency. Not only, of course, is it the crux for understanding rhythm,

Tonight was Open House. In preparations, the teacher candidate who is working with me decided we needed Starbucks, so while she was out getting our

As we look forward to a new school year, there have been some hopefully exciting changes coming from the Federal level that can be good

I finished. It was really difficult, because I wanted to include ALL the Pinterest ideas I had viewed the last year while on my academic

After years of sharing rooms with art teachers (not at the same time!), teaching in cafeterias, kindergarten classrooms, and even one year teaching in the