Teaching Elementary Orchestra

  String Fest is a huge undertaking.  It involves ALL the district's orchestra students and teachers, from elementary through high schoo...

  Our combined elementary orchestras just performed my arrangement of "Banuwa" for our district-wide String Fest again, so I thoug...

  Happy New Year!  While preparing to make copies for second semester, I noticed the notation for some of the handouts wasn't as clear ...

Sometimes it is helpful to zoom out and look at the entire school year for planning purposes.  Here is a collection of resources/blog posts ...

  I keep a document where I keep track which years/months I post my different hallway bulletin boards, and I thought it might be helpful to ...

  I have been wanting another way to look at the repertoire I have taught in past years, organized by unit or by concert.  I had always been...

On the last week of small groups, I like to have students figure out how to play some melodies by ear.  This isn't their first exposure ...

  I wanted to share sample lesson plans + agendas + resources for the entire school year.  To view, here's the link: Lesson plan overvie...

Here is a very simple two-part arrangement of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" that I used with my beginning orchestra last year.  E...