We go over to the reading nook when we read a story that goes with a particular lesson or when the kids rotate in stations. The palm tree was a prop in the musical last year.
If you look in the top corner of the picture you can see the disco ball I used for a musical performance last year and decided to hang it. The kids really like the disco ball. The bright posters are the solfeggio syllables. I've brightened up my chalkboard with chalk markers.
This is my Super Singer board. All of my chorus members get their name in a star on this board. Each chorus rehearsal I choose two or three students who were super singers. They get a certificate and a small prize like a sticker or a music note eraser.
I didn't really use these boards as chalkboards so I decided to cover them and use them as bulletin boards. I keep a birthday calendar from Plank Road Publishing that the students can check to see if they have the same birthday as a famous composer. The leaves on the tree have vocabulary words we will be using this year. I'll be adding more words and branches throughout the year.
I refer to my maps all the time. We sing a lot of songs from other countries and different parts of our country. It's so handy to have the maps here that I can point to and show the students the places we are learning about.
This is where I keep some of my musical instruments and my beat buddies. We use beat buddies in kindergarten and first grade to keep the beat.
These are my instrument guidelines. Students know that when they get their instruments they must sit in "resting position" until we are ready to play.
Finally, these are my classroom expectations and the guitar I use in class. I use a Baby Taylor that I can keep at the school and tuck safely away at the end of the day.
I hope you enjoyed your tour around my classroom. I've already made a few tweaks to my set up that I'll share with you later. The year has started off really well and the kids love all of the changes I've made.
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