How we celebrated "Music in our Schools Month"
As a first year teacher, I had no idea how they had previously celebrated “Music in our Schools Month” So I decided to do something that would only take about 10 minutes. (I teach 25 minute classes) I had the kids complete the sentence:
Music means________________ to me.
I had the older kids complete it on a piece of paper and I
went around and asked grades K and 1. A first grader asked if the teachers were
going to complete the sentence too- sometimes kids give you your best ideas, so
I had all the teachers and faculty complete the sentence as well.
When I had gathered all of my answers I plugged them into
the website: wordle.net by grade
level and created word clouds. I made them bigger on the copier and covered one
of my blank walls with it (since I have very limited bulletin board space.) The
kids loved finding their answers and seeing which answers were more popular and
which answers were extremely unique!
Now I have to come up with something just as creative and
new for next year… YIKES!
