by Jeanette Mihalchik | Jan 11, 2022 | Adding Literacy to the Music Classroom, Literacy Tip Tuesday
The Secret to Sneaking Reading Skills in When You’re Teaching a Song Do you get stuck when you’re trying to come up with ways to sneak reading skills into your lessons? Yep, I used to get stuck too! Until I realized that EVERY.SINGLE.THING we do in the...
by Jeanette Mihalchik | Dec 14, 2021 | Behavior Management, Tips and Tricks for Music Teachers
Teaching music can be awesome! After all, we get to be the fun class. Of course this has its good and bad aspects. Today, let’s focus on the great parts of being the class that your kiddos look forward to. Here are some of the wonderful reasons you love being a...
by Jeanette Mihalchik | Dec 7, 2021 | Music Teacher Activities, Tips and Tricks for Music Teachers
This year has been challenging, right? I know…you and I both thought last year was super tricky and that this year was going to be better. In some ways, it has been. Things are closer to normal. But I’m of the opinion that we have to get over the idea that...
by Jeanette Mihalchik | Nov 30, 2021 | Adding Literacy to the Music Classroom, Tips and Tricks for Music Teachers
I’m sure you are aware of the wide-spread push to add cross-curricular learning in every subject. You’re probably also aware that adding reading skills is one of the most important styles of integration. And if you read my last blog post, you also know why...
by Jeanette Mihalchik | Nov 16, 2021 | Adding Literacy to the Music Classroom, Tips and Tricks for Music Teachers
You know that adding reading strategies to our classroom can be beneficial to our students, but you may not know WHY. It’s important to know why you should do something. I mean, you already teach ALL.THE.THINGS in your music class, and you are super busy. Plus...
