Re: Tough 3rd and 4th crowd...

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Thanks, everyone! Your support is greatly appreciated.

I actually have a grant request in for the entire Gameplan
series. I'm waiting to see if it gets funded.

There's another teacher in my district who uses it and loves
it.

I'm also planning to start Kodaly certification this coming
summer.

Again, thanks. I'll look into the other materials mentioned.

And I liked the points idea. My students definitely need
something to aid their behavior. They're not bad. They just
talk all the time...and I mean all the time. Not just with
me, but with their regular teachers, too. We have a rough
crowd.

On 11/29/12, newmusicteacher wrote:
> 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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