9.01.2014

My Elementary Music Classroom, Part 1

This is the bulletin board behind my desk where I plan to post calendars and choir information.

Music is a language the whole world speaks.

We Like to Move it! Space, Time, Energy, Nonlocomotor and Locomotor Movement

Cricut scroll letters that spell music and a fancy xylophone.
Music involves math, language, history, reading and science!
This is the first thing you see as you enter the music room.

Front and center where the kids will see it everyday.
FACE = Spaces and EGBDF = Lines

Pitch, hand signs and symbols that have to do with pitch.
Again, front and center for students to see daily.

Rhythm and Symbols flank the bottom and top of the white board.
Last year, I had these in the back of the classroom. What was I thinking?! 

I'm going to use this SHINE visual to remind students
how they should be sitting during direct instruction or
student performances. I made the "practice makes perfect" sign
with a Cricut and scrapbook paper. The top page is a list of
"Whole Class Attention Getters."

Cricut script words and animals make a fun bulletin board
to reinforce vocabulary. My son is four and he gets the concept
of one being a solo, two a duet and three a trio after
seeing this in my classroom. So proud! :`)
One entire wall in my music classroom is mirrors and I wanted a decal.
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, there is a musician in us all."
This decal was designed by my friend Ellisha over at Sound Sayings.