As I'm entering my ninth [edit: 14th!] year of teaching elementary orchestra, I'm starting to get a collection of beginning-of-the-year bulletin board ideas, so here they are all in one place (with links to each post below the picture):
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Beginning-of-the-Year Bulletin Boards
As I'm entering my ninth [edit: 14th!] year of teaching elementary orchestra, I'm starting to get a collection of beginning-of-the-year bulletin board ideas, so here they are all in one place (with links to each post below the picture):
Friday, March 2, 2018
Women Wow the Music World! Bulletin Board
March is Women's History Month, and this year I wanted to create a bulletin board highlighting female musicians throughout history. Thanks to my mom for coming up with the title: "Women Wow the Music World!"(and for cutting out and mailing me the letters)!
As with some previous bulletin boards (see the post "Celebrate Music with these Great Americans!" for Black History Month), I printed out the "condensed" file, trimmed and laminated each half sheet, and then attached them to a folded piece of colored paper. If you'd rather save some steps, just print out the "double sided" file, fold each page in half, and you're ready to staple them to the bulletin board!
For each musician, I included her name and picture on the front and then her name, dates, country, instrument, profession, genre, and one famous title when you lift up the flap.
Here are the 24 musicians included (feel free to add your own):
- Martha Argerich
- Amy Beach
- Hildegard von Bingen
- Nadia Boulanger
- Regina Carter
- Cécile Chaminade
- Sarah Chang
- Sandra Dackow
- Jacqueline du Pre
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Aretha Franklin
- Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
- Jennifer Higdon
- Billie Holiday
- Alma Schindler Mahler
- Midori
- Soon Hee Newbold
- Florence Beatrice Price
- Clara Schumann
- Ruth Crawford Seeger
- Anoushka Shankar
- Bessie Smith
- Esperanza Spalding
- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Women Wow the Music World!--heading
Names, pictures, and trivia (condensed)
Names, pictures, and trivia (print double sided)
Enjoy!
Monday, February 12, 2018
Composer Trivia Bulletin Board
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 portraits (pdf)
- Composer trivia (pdf)
- Trivia with word balloons (pdf)
- Great job! plus trivia word balloons (pdf)
Monday, January 30, 2017
Celebrate Music with these Great Americans! Bulletin Board
With February being Black History Month, I wanted to create a bulletin board highlighting musicians and came up with the title "Celebrate music with these great Americans!" It was hard to narrow the selection of who to include, so I think I will switch out some names halfway through the month (they won't all fit on my bulletin board at one time...).
I printed out the "condensed" file, trimmed and laminated each half sheet, and then attached them to a folded piece of colored paper. If you'd rather save some steps, just print out the "double sided" file, fold each page in half, and you're ready to staple them to the bulletin board!
For each musician, I included their name and picture on the front and then their name/nickname, dates, instrument, profession, genre, and one famous title when you lift up the flap.
Here are the 24 musicians included (feel free to add your own):
- Louis Armstrong
- Chuck Berry
- James Brown
- Regina Carter
- Nat King Cole
- John Coltrane
- Duke Ellington
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Aretha Franklin
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Jimi Hendrix
- Billie Holiday
- Scott Joplin
- B.B. King
- Wynton Marsalis
- Bobby McFerrin
- Jelly Roll Morton
- Thelonious Monk
- Charlie Parker
- Florence Beatrice Price
- Bessie Smith
- William Grant Still
- Sarah Vaughan
- Fats Waller
Celebrate music with these great Americans--heading
Names, pictures, and trivia (condensed)
Names, pictures, and trivia (print double sided)
Enjoy!
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016
C Major Packet and Scavenger Hunt
As we get into our unit on the key of C Major, I present my students with a packet of pieces that use the C Major key signature (there is one piece in A minor). To become better acquainted with these new pieces, I tell students that I have a scavenger hunt for them. Some questions will have one more than one possible answer, and the same title may be used more than once.
I do very few written worksheets in orchestra, but I like this one because it's a good review of many topics that we've covered over the course of the year (anacrusis, triad, note-reading etc.) and it exposes students to some new musical concepts that we haven't officially covered (6/8 time signature, dotted quarter-eighth note rhythm). And when students get to the music history questions, their heads always turn to the music history timeline wall to figure out where each composer would fit. Nice use of resources :)
I tried to include a variety of public domain pieces, some familiar and some not so familiar. Here are the contents:
- Pop Goes the Weasel
- Theme from Surprise Symphony
- November (Bohemian Folk Song)
- Sailor's Hornpipe
- Mexican Hat Dance
- America, the Beautiful
- Red Wing
- Minuet in C
Enjoy!
- C Major repertoire packet (Word document)
- C Major repertoire packet (PDF)
- Scavenger hunt (Word document)
- Scavenger hunt (PDF)
- Answer key (PDF)
Monday, February 1, 2016
Music In Our Schools Month: Quotes
For Music In Our Schools Month, I combined student quotes and pictures with quotes from some more well-known figures. Here are the famous quotes, and here are the pictures that match up.
The prompts for the student responses were:
§ What music means to me:
§ Music is important because…
§ Why I chose to play the instrument that I play:
§ Without music…
Check out this post for more MIOSM ideas including templates for the written prompts.
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