Substitute music lesson plans

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It inevitably happens to every music teacher at some point in their teaching career: you have to call out absent. Whether it’s to attend a conference,

In 4th and 5th grade, we really go over the instruments in detail (soon the students will get to chose one if they'd like to in Middle School). Also, my 4th grade students will visit our local university (NMSU) in mid-November to attend an orchestral performance. So, it is time for me to go over the instruments of the orchestra (again). To begin: I'm a huge fan of the SFS Kids website. I use this every year as we go over the instruments, coupled with videos of prestigious orchestras from…

These 20 Rock and Popular Musician worksheets are an engaging way to introduce General and Middle School Music students to different styles and genres of music. The printable research activities are suitable for substitute lessons, assignments and for last minute lesson planning.

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I used to dread making custom dice for my classroom, unless you are lucky enough to have wooden cubes to paste pictures onto, one step on a cardboard template dice from a student and th…

Welcome back everyone, I can't believe summer is gone and it's time to go back to school. I think the best part of going back to school is getting new things for my classroom and scoring some back to school freebies. So I think you will love this back to school freebie I created (see picture below). Instant lesson plan freebie: All my teacher friends really love my kindergarten/1st grade lesson plans and keep asking me to post them so they can use the fun games and visuals in their…

Music teachers and beginning band directors - Do you need a music substitute lesson plan? Here is a great solution for you, even for a non-music substitute teacher. This is a scripted lesson plan for 4th & 5th music grade over meter. In the article are links to a PDF, awesome, short teaching videos with links, and discussion questions. All you have to do is download a PDF of this entire music substitute lesson plan - ready to go for your substitute! #banddirectorstalkshop