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Hi all. Thank you so much for all of your thoughts and help
with my first year of teaching elementary music. As I
stated in my last post, I'm now using the First Steps in
Music for Pre-K through 1st grade. Second grade is
preparing for the winter musical.

Third and fourth are doing the Making Music curriculum and
they really don't like it. I'm doing the core
lessons...exactly as specified...and the kids are bored. I
teach in an 85% free and reduced lunch school with 30% ESL,
so I have a tough crowd anyway. But they really are bored
by the songs and activities in Making Music. Does anyone
have any suggestions for anything I could add to Making
Music (or even replace)? I tried to add drums to a 4th
grade lesson once (the old teacher left me a world music
drumming book, dvd, and 6 drums)...I thought they would
love it...they were even bored with that. 5 or 6 students
said "drums are stupid". (Tough crowd!!) Any help would be
appreciated. Any suggestions for new curriculum, books, or
music games for the older students?

Thanks.

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