Category: Projects
2nd Graders Podcast About Beethoven
During the winter trimester, my second grade music classes studied the composer, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). They performed a variety of activities to learn about the life of Beethoven and to experience his music. When the unit ends, the students and I created podcasts about Beethoven’s life. The students were divided into groups, they wrote [...]
Integrating With 3rd Grade Social Studies: “Adventure America”
This week, the third graders will be presenting their annual “Adventure America” where the third graders present about facts of the states that they researched and studied. The students will each set up their info at a table set up in our Performing Arts Center as parents and older students filter through to stop, listen [...]
Displaying Elementary Students’ Music Creations
Tomorrow I head back to Far Hills Country Day School to begin my 16th year of teaching at this school. I am excited to head back, to brainstorm new ideas, and to improve on old ideas as I teach general music to elementary students, beginning woodwinds to all fifth graders, direct the elementary band, and [...]
