Are you looking for some great resources for music teachers to start the year off right? In this post, I would like to share with you some of my favorite music teacher resources that I use in my classroom. These are my go to music resources that I use every year in my elementary music class.
I love them and I hope you will too!
Music Classroom Decor Megabundle
This is a great back to school music resource that you can enjoy through the whole year. I packed it full of everything I thought a music teacher would need to set up their music classroom:
- music vocabulary word wall
- music room rules
- bulletin boards
- solfege ladder
- Orff instrument mallet rules
- ice breaker activities for the first week
- and tons more.
The Music Classroom Decor Bundle is a MASSIVE value and a one stop shop so you can focus on the millions of other things you need to do when getting ready for pack to school, like lesson planning.
You can check out about my classroom setup here.
Listening Map Growing Bundle
This one is another great music resource that you will be able to use all year, year after year. It contains a GROWING collection of listening maps that you can use to easily teach complex classical pieces in music class.
The best part? With a growing bundle, you get MORE listening maps as they continue to be added to collection – at no additional cost!
Want to learn more about listening maps? I have a blog post for that! Listening Map for Music: The Ultimate How To Guide has all the details about how you might use listening maps in your music classroom.
Solfege Flashcards
These solfège flashcards are useful all year long. You can throw them in any time you want to brush your kids up on note reading. Here is the sequence they follow (although obviously you can follow them in whatever order best suits your teaching).
K: SO-MI melodic patterns using a two-line staff
1: LA-SO-MI melodic patterns using a two-line staff
2: LA-SO-MI-DO melodic patterns using a three-line staff
3: LA-SO-MI-RE-DO melodic patterns using traditional notation
4: LA-SO-FA-MI-RE-DO melodic patterns using traditional notation
5: diatonic melodic patterns using traditional notation
Need some ideas of how versatile these flashcards are? Read my blog post all about How to Use Solfege Flashcard in Elementary Music Class.
Write the Room Growing Bundle
I love Write the Room activities! You can use them to teach just about anything! And that is exactly what I had in mind when I created the Write the Room Growing Bundle. It contains the many Write the Room activities I have created, plus you get all the new ones for no additional cost as I add them!
I have so many ideas in store for this!
Learn more about how I use Write the Room activities in my music class.
Rhythm Building Block Cards
These are another great resource that you can use year after year. It contains every rhythm I could possible think of that you might need to teach in elementary music class. It is great for teaching rhythm and time signatures.
Rhythm Worksheets
Want the perfect resource to go with your rhythm cards? How about rhythm worksheets. These are so helpful when teaching students to read and write rhythm! They are another use it every year resource for me – and they can be for you too!
Instruments of the Orchestra Unit
Have you ever wished that some could just plan your units for you? Wish granted! This Instruments of the Orchestra lesson is a NINE-WEEK UNIT that has all the lesson plans, learning goals, PowerPoint slides, and worksheets you need to teach the Instruments of the Orchestra.
If you want all the details on this you can check out my Instruments of the Orchestra Lesson blog post.
And I also mention ways that I use it in my own classroom in my post 5 Fun New Ways to Teach Instruments of the Orchestra.
Singing Voice
Here is another great fall unit. You can teach students all about their singing voice to seasonal fall songs and activities.
Learn about my Types of Voices unit here. Ready to buy? You can grab it now and have your kindergarten lessons done as well!
Composer Bundles
I have one more set of lessons I have to tell you about. It’s my famous composer bundles. I have lesson packs for:
They have composer biography info, listening maps to some of the composers most famous songs and fun activities to go with the songs as well.
Duple and Triple Meter Posters – FREE!
Looking for a free music decor resource? Here is a free, easy to use poster to explain duple and triple meter. This is available for Gordon syllables as well as Orff/Kodaly.
Those are just a few of my current favorite back to school music resources to start the year set up for success! And don’t forget to follow my TPT store to always know when new resources are added!
