Cute Kindergarteners

As my student teacher greeted Kindergarteners at the door on says, "Hello Mr. Bumblebee!" Cute, I thought because he is teaching them a Bumblebee chant to work on loud and quiet. As they leave that day the student comes up to me and says, "You know why I call him Mr. Bumblebee?" I of course replied because of the Bumblebee chant. She says, "No? Because I don't know his name!!"

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Hallway wall for everyone!!

I am soooooo excited about the music staff in my hallway at school. The caption is "Each of us a single note, together we create a masterpiece at DSE!" Each note has a student's name and each color is a different class. I am thinking I will leave it up the whole year as a teaching tool, but we will see how that goes.

Anchor charts

So... I'm not sure if anchor charts are for the students or serve as a visual reminder for me. I love the active listening one I made and can refer to to correct or redirect students, it hangs near where I stand in the room. The other chart reminds me what to have the kids look for when examining a new piece of music.

Jericho Jenga!! One of our favorite games in music class is Jericho Jenga. Students sit in a circle with a jenga stack in the middle. One student walks the circle (to the beat) as everyone sings the first half of Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho. At "the walls came a tumblin' down" the students tops in front of someone in the circle ad that person goes to pull out a jenga block while the class sings the second half! Repeat (over and over). For big classes use two Jenga stacks and two people walking.

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