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I hope everyone enjoyed their day! I have seen great pins and posts about fun Halloween activities. Check out some my favourite  Halloween ideas from fellow bloggers! Save them for next year! Lindsay's Halloween Favorites at  Pursuit of Joyfulness Halloween Rhythms at  O For Tuna Orff Laura's Must be Halloween at   Make Music Rock Aileen's Vocal Exploration Ideas at  Mrs. Miracle's Music Room And… if you haven't saved or printed them yet, don't forget to grab my 10 free Halloween rhythm cards!  HERE ! Let's hope the kids aren't too sugared up tomorrow! Ugh, who's kidding?! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Welcome to another 2/4 Tuesday! Today I would like to share 4 books that I am using in my classroom.  Check out the other bloggers listed below! Bloggers- be sure to post about 2-4 teaching ideas that you love and want to share! And link up below! 1.  The Composer is Dead Perfect for the older kids for Halloween spooky time! They LOVE it! Comes with a CD recording of the story and includes high-quality orchestral excerpts that represent the characters in the story. 2.  The Castaway Pirates My grade 4 Orff club is working on an Orff composition with this book.  There is AMAZING artwork in this book that just happens to be pop-up! 3.  Doing the Animal Bop This is a great one for vocal exploration for the Kinders. Comes with a CD. 4.  Punk Farm This is super fun! A punk rock rendition of Old MacDonald. Perfect in conjunction with Kriske and Delelles' Kindergarten Game Plan farm animal theme unit.

Thanks to Aileen at  Mrs. Miracle's Music Room   for hosting another "Five Favorite Pins" linky party! It's time for October's favorite pins! Check out Mrs. Miracle's blog, along with others who have linked up. 1. Autumn Rhythm Worksheet  This is a great one! Excellent to leave with a sub too. Thanks to  Totally Tuned in Teacher  for creating this! 2. Click, Clack, Boo!  I love this! I need to get this book in my hands...now!   3. Five Little Pumpkins  This would be so much fun on boomwhackers! Thank you Ashley over at  Elementary Music Resources   for creating this. 4 . Music Teacher Font! THIS IS AMAZING! I have been using this font for everything lately! Thank you, thank you , thank you to Tweet Music on Teachers Pay Teachers for offering this for FREEEE! 5. Skin and Bones Video An oldie but a goodie song, updated with this great video. I especially like the good modal children's voices that are heard singing! Bonus Pin! This cutie p...

I love having children create art to inspire or represent creative movement.  Last week I shared a fun autumn song that I am doing with my grade 2 classes.   I thought it would be fun to create autumn leaves to serve as inspiration for movement. The movement ideas will be used in conjunction with a student created soundscape in order to create a B section for "Autumn Leaves". First, students came up with a list of autumn colours. Next, they came up with different examples of line. After the two lists were compiled, I demonstrated and explained our art project. The kids loved this activity and were really excited to see how it related to Music! The next class we talked about and explored different ways to move the lines on our leaves. The kids demonstrated ideas for each other and then came up with a movement that represented their leaf.  We had so much fun and the movement looked beautiful!

Welcome to another 2/4 Tuesday! It's a bit late tonight, so I hope some of you will still link up! Share 2-4 ideas that you are doing or plan on doing in your Music class. Follow the linky party instructions below to link your blog post! Be sure to check out the other bloggers! Here are some ideas I am doing in my classroom this week! 1. October Bulletin Board Yup. Those are paint chips! An idea I got somewhere on Pinterest of course.  I included some vocal exploration ghosts on my board to include in our vocal warm-ups in October! This was an idea I got from Pinterest as well. If you are interested in ghost vocal exploration cards, click HERE   to get some from Lindsay at Teachers Pay Teachers ! I put the Halloween rhythm cards from last week on my board so that classes could create ostinati for our October songs. Super fun. Free printouts of those cards are found HERE ! 2. Great Mozart Biography Videos Our Composer of the Season for Fall is Mozart! I showed this video to my ...

It's 2/4 Tuesday! Teacher bloggers can link up below with 2-4 of their ideas for the Music room! I have 3 freebies of my own to share! 1. Autumn Leaves Song I am doing this with my grade 2 classes at the moment. They are practicing their broken bordun with it on the instruments. The students will be creating a B section with movement inspired by their artwork! "Stay Tuned" for student art and movement ideas! Feel free to use this song with your kiddoes. 2. Grade 2 Rhythm Cards I wanted to create rhythm cards specifically for two students with special needs. They can keep these cards with them and practice verbalizing and clapping their rhythm patterns with their educational assistants. 8 come in the FREE pack! 3. Sound/Word Cards for Fall These can be used as cards, or as a full sheet. I think I will laminate the full sheet and have my students  with special needs use them outside of Music class to practice hearing, clapping and saying the rhythm of words. Some students w...

I have tried time and time again, to implement a composer of the month program. It is HARD! For me anyways! I thought "Why not try a Composer of the Season  program??!!" This is much more attainable for my students and I. Instead of focusing on a different composer every month, we do a composer study every season!  Check out my Fall bulletin board for Composer of the Season! We are doing Mozart for the Fall season. I got these amazing printables from Sara Bibee on Teachers Pay Teachers. The set is fabulous! Get it  HERE! I bought that awesome music note gift wrap paper from Winners and the purple wrapping paper from Dollarama! I LOVE purple if you haven't noticed... Do you have a composer study program? What do you do? How do you organize it? Share, share, share!

Welcome back to another 2/4 Tuesday! If you are a blogger, post about 2-4 ideas and link up below! If you are a blog lover, don't forget to check out the great blogs linked up below! Here are my 2 ideas for this Tuesday! 1.  Halloween Rhythm Cards I love posting these on my "Rhythm Stew" October bulletin board. My students use the rhythm cards to create ostanati and/or create rhythm poems. Find them for FREE HERE ! 2. Grade 1 Candy Rhythms In grade one we sing and play a few songs about trick or treating. Here are some candy rhythms cutouts that are FREE and right  HERE !

Voila! Cool, eh?! I love retro stuff and I love the way this Tempo Turn fits my style with neon colours and a record from way back when... All you have to do is copy the FREE PRINTABLE onto your favourite coloured paper, cut everything out and glue onto a record! I used a brass fastener to attach the spinner arrow in the middle. The hole in the centre of the record is perfect for that!  Check out how I use the Tempo Turn and Tempo Cat posters in my classroom HERE ! PS- On the printable I have also added rit. and accel.  Have fun and I hope you like it!