Maybe I'm crazy, but I love the first day of school.  I try to make my class stand out on the first day by making it fun, meaningful, ...

I am so excited about this warm-up book!  I've been needing a warm-up book to use with my year 2 players.  I tend to find myself repeati...

  To me, teaching note reading is a huge deal.  If students don't learn to read notes in my beginning orchestra class I know they were s...

 Themed lesson plans are so much fun!  I just put together one for May 5th - REVENGE OF THE FIFTH!  You can access and edit your own version...

  My students are doing so well with their concert music!  We have just over 2 weeks left of rehearsal and my final steps are cleaning up in...

  My students are to the point where they can play all of our concert music, but there are still a few spots which scary intonation.  We dri...

  I posted some of my resent rehearsal assessments/activities on instagram (@orchestra.teacher.life) and a few people wanted an editable tem...

  First of all, let me be clarify that the game play for Orchestra Football is not exactly like the game play of real football.  Truthfully,...