Teaching Elementary Orchestra

  For this year's beginning-of-the-year bulletin board, I wanted to label the different parts of notes and eventually came up with the t...

  In an effort to help with retention in orchestra between elementary and middle school, I created this "Music for Life" bulletin ...

Here is an arrangement of "Drunken Sailor" I wrote for combined first- and second-year orchestra students--renamed "Variation...

Here's a sort of mix-and-match arrangement of "Everybody Loves Saturday Night," from Nigeria.  There are two versions in this ...

  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...