Peter-and-the-Wolf Re-tell by Room 211

This Podcast is a Re-tell of the famous symphonic poem performed, illustrated and re-told by my current 2nd graders at Harrington Elementary. After listening to Prokofiev’s music and watching a video of the story, the class discussed diferent instruments used to describe each character, then chose instruements from our classroom to [...]

Conference time has come and gone. I’m back in the classroom on a snowy January. Testing pressure is mounting and kids are going crazy already. I am frantic to find time to fit in curriculum and performance material (which should be one in the same, but inevitably end up different somehow).  And I just don’t [...]

Wow. After I wrote that Title for this post, I thought of something totally different. So If you are here because you Googled “Viagra”, I’m not going that way!
No, this post is my typical gripe about performances in the elementary music setting, the fact that I have to do 3 per year if I want [...]