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Monday, February 26, 2018

Dr. Seuss Door Decorations


Dr. Seuss door decoration elementary band/orchestra

This year my school is doing a whole Dr. Seuss week, complete with door decorations inspired by different Dr. Seuss books.  My book was The Foot Book, and what better way to decorate the door of the band/orchestra room than by adding feet to instruments?  I colored and cut out photocopies of feet from the book and added them to laminated pictures of instruments that I already had from an earlier bulletin board, and voila!  I think I like the feet on the trumpet and bass the best :)


Dr. Seuss door decoration elementary band/orchestra


Dr. Seuss door decoration elementary band/orchestra


Dr. Seuss door decoration elementary band/orchestra


Dr. Seuss door decoration elementary band/orchestra


Dr. Seuss door decoration elementary band/orchestra


Dr. Seuss door decoration elementary band/orchestra


Dr. Seuss door decoration elementary band/orchestra


Dr. Seuss door decoration elementary band/orchestra

Monday, February 12, 2018

Composer Trivia Bulletin Board


Composer trivia bulletin board elementary orchestra


One thing that I like about our method book, "Orchestra Expressions," Book 1, is that it highlights several composers including Bach, Beethoven, Bizet, Copland, Strauss, Jr. and more.  The featured composers each have a portion of a page with their portrait, a short bio, a listening map for a specific composition, and a timeline.  The CD that comes with the book also has a recording of that specific composition for each composer; students are encouraged to listen to that CD track while doing various warmups.

Anyway, I took five of the composers and came up with a bit of trivia for each.  I put the fun fact on the front of a folded sheet of paper and the corresponding composer's name on the inside.  This way, it's an interactive bulletin board--students can flip up the flap to see if they guessed the correct composer!

Here are the pdfs of the text and pictures.  I laminated each bit before taping it onto the colored paper so they would last longer.  I've also included some pdfs of the same trivia written as a word balloon coming out of the mouth of each composer. Enjoy!


Composer trivia bulletin board elementary orchestra

Composer trivia bulletin board elementary orchestra

Composer trivia bulletin board elementary orchestra

Composer trivia bulletin board elementary orchestra

Composer trivia bulletin board elementary orchestra

Composer trivia bulletin board elementary orchestra


Composer trivia word balloons