Elementary music education

Looking for engaging, musical games to play with your students? Here are a few of my favorite games and activities for elementary music classes, children's choirs, and elementary group classes.

Preparing for Your First Elementary Music Teaching Job. Organized Chaos. Top 5 suggestions to help you get ready over the summer for your first elementary music job.

Five fun and action-filled circle games to practice rhythm, pitch, and more with your elementary music students.

Want to make your elementary music lessons more engaging? These are ways to add more instruments to your general music lessons.

Movement lessons your fourth and fifth grade music students will want to do. These are simple & easy lessons for elementary music class.

Here's the lesson plan template that I use to scaffold my lessons and explain concepts to my administrators.

My 15-Minute Music Lesson Freebies are some of the most popular here at Music in Our Homeschool. See links to all of them here.

Check out these tips for taking a new job or switching schools as an elementary music teacher. There's a lot to do to get ready for your first elementary music teaching job !If you're looking ahead to your first job in elementary music, here are my top 5 suggestions for things to do to prepare for the most successful year possible! Get ready for back to school and set yourself up for the best year ever. #backtoschool #newteachingjob #elementarymusic

We've all been there: one class is ahead of the rest of the grade level, it's the last day before a vacation, you're stressed/ tired/ sick and can't think straight to teach a regular lesson, it's a weird schedule day and the kids are spinning in circles, there's a last-minute change and you can't do the lesson you had planned... Whatever the reason, we all have days when we need to step out of our regularly-scheduled sequenced curriculum and do something different for one class period. Sure…

It has taken me a while to put together a classroom tour but I am thrilled to have a week of school under my belt and my classroom set up and humming along! The most exciting part of my classroom setup this year is being able to get back to many of the things I haven't been able to do during the pandemic, but I have also added a few new tweaks to my room from my pre-pandemic setup too, so I'm excited to share those as well. First to give you a lay of the land, here's a quick video around the…