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Today was Book Character Day at my school, in celebration of I Love to Read Month! My friend Renee was Pete the Cat!  Check out her awesome teacher blog HERE ! She is the one who inspired me to start my own blog! Guess who I went as? Click HERE for a fun Pete the Cat Rocking in my School Shoes musical composition unit, including FREEBIES! Yay for reading!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! I thought I would just share some photos of my kiddies doing some Valentine's Day activities yesterday. Today, I have the day off and I am in my hometown ready to celebrate my nephew's first birthday! The other week I found some goodies at Target. A cute mailbox and some candy heart message stickers! I saw these foam stickers and thought COMPOSITION! I had also seen the stickers on some other blogs before, so I was extra excited to see them! Aaaaand they were only $1 for a pack of 80! I made some rhythm "postcards cards" for my grade 1 and 2 classes. I used them and the mailbox for a fun circle game. Click HERE to get the rhythm card FREEBIE! I wish I would have had more energy to create a cute worksheet sheet for the compositions, buuuuut I didn't, so I had these boring ones. Haha, oh well! As a review and before learning re and do, my grade 2 students created mi, so, la compositions using four foam hearts of their choice. The...

Welcome to another 2/4 Tuesday Linky Party, where we post about 2-4 ideas for the Music classroom! Join in the fun by linking up at the end of this post! In your post, please include the Linky Party button above with a link to my post! Let's party y'all! My choirs are in full music festival mode! This time of year is always fun, busy and sometimes stressful! I do find it less stressful every year, as I have gotten to know my singers better and better and can choose repertoire that suits their voices and that they will enjoy. 1. Riversong by Andy Beck, published by Alfred This is a beautiful piece of music. I adore Andy Beck. This piece has gorgeous phrasing and vocal lines that move fluidly over top of the glistening piano accompaniment. My grade 4-6 choir kids love singing this because it sounds so beautiful. We sang the verses on "loo" first and painted our phrases, each holding a feather in the air. This was the hook for them; using a prop to create a beautiful ima...

I love singing songs about letters and valentines with my grade 1 and 2 classes in February. Usually when singing these songs, I have rhythm cards in an envelope and students take turns pulling a rhythm and clapping it when the song is finished. This week though, I found a treasure at Target for a dollar! I love those dollar bins! I also made some rhythm postcards to share for FREE! Click HERE to get them! I will be putting my mailbox of rhythms in the middle of our singing circle. As the Valentine's Day song is being sung, someone goes around the circle tapping heads (duck, duck, goose style) until the song is over. The person who is tapped last, gets to go to the mailbox and get their postcard to clap for the class. Tomorrow I will be hosting my monthly linky party 2/4 Tuesday! Post about 2-4 things you are doing, or planning on doing, in your Music class! Be sure to tune in!