Teaching Elementary Orchestra

  After handwriting a heading on a piece of paper and taping it on to a manila envelope for several years, I realized there were a limited n...

  For creating the Solo/Ensemble festival schedule, I use two documents.  One is the one-page master schedule which lets me see the entire ...

 A few years ago, my district purchased new cello cases for our school instruments, so I ordered these  plastic key tags  to use as labels. ...

  For our district-wide annual String Fest, we hire movers to transport chair and stand racks as well as cello and bass racks from the eleme...

  Last fall I made copies of just about every handout and piece of music that students would need for the first semester and stuffed folder...

  For this year's beginning-of-the-year bulletin board, I wanted to do something with conducting patterns.  I came up with the title ...

  After seeing a fingering poster online that another orchestra teacher had created, I knew I wanted to make a set for myself.  I cut strips...

 In preparation for in-person and virtual students in the fall and the possibility of going totally virtual at some point, I prepped folders...

  This fall I taped fingering charts into the folders for my students as a helpful reference for both my in-person and virtual students.  F...