Take the stress out of assessment with this musical playground of activities and singing games your students will love! Designed for students in grades K-5, this creative collection of seasonal songs and activities will provide hours of fun throughout the school year while assessing students on rhythm reading, steady beat, matching pitch, solfege, vocal tone colors and much more! Make assessments a vital part of your lesson planning this year!
 

Calling on more than 26 years of experience, Patricia Bourne explores, in accessible and sincere fashion, this pairing of the practical and philosophical in K-6 general music. The real-world considerations of classroom management and additional responsibilities, such as ensembles and the performance expectations that come with them, are addressed in detail, as is the subject of finding and succeeding in "the" position.

Do you teach music to hundreds of kids each week and have to keep track of a stack of seating charts, class lists and lesson plans? Here's the music planner for you with everything under one cover! This one-of-a-kind resource is packed with helpful charts, calendars and ideas to help you stay organized and plan ahead for the whole school year, with weekly lesson plan charts, monthly calendars, seating charts, reproducible forms for student information, class list charts, assessments rubrics based on the National Standards and lesson descriptions.

Here are twelve flexible programs designed to delight, entertain and sometimes even educate your cast members and audiences. From January to December, there is a program for each major holiday marked on your school calendar. Programs A-Plenty provides all the dialog, and gives suggestions for songs that could be incorporated in each program. We encourage you to take the script provided and make the programs your own. Happy Holidays - every one of them!