Teaching Elementary Orchestra

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...

  Orchestra Expressions  gets to the C and E string notes pretty late in Book 1, and I like to introduce them to first-year players in the s...

  Students at my schools have one 30-minute small group and one 30-minute full orchestra rehearsal each week, and I like to send a weekly ne...

  While my school does all their attendance records online (on Infinite Campus), I still print out my own attendance sheets, which also doub...