The Music Teacher's Almanac- A GREAT resource

I wanted to review this book because I think it is a wonderful/necessary tool for every general music teacher!!

The book is split up according to months in the year and there are activities for every holiday and other days as well. They are not all holiday activities though. I really love that they give you worksheets and resources throughout the book to accompany every single lesson plan. The lesson plans are simple and easy to follow and do not require very many additional resources.

The book contains the following activities:

• Chants, cheers
• echo activities
• listening activities and maps
• composition activities
• circle games
• rounds
• composer worksheet and listening
• music trivia
• holiday bingo
• Opera plays
• other plays

It's just a really really great book! I'm thrilled that I have it as I make all of my plans for classes next year. CLICK HERE to purchase on Amazon. 

zzzzzz- unit plan template

I'm so so tired and really should go to bed, but I'm crazy excited about these simple templates that I finished today and can't wait to use for all of my units! I just finished my first year of teaching and I've been trying a million different ways of organizing my lessons and ideas. I like the simplicity of using a unit plan to help guide my lessons.

Here is an example of what a full year curriculum might look like, assuming you have 4 quarters in the year. This is for a 1st grade class.

Here is the blank template that I started with for building my individual unit plans from my bigger curriculum plan.

Here is one filled out for the first unit or quarter. 

Here is a sample lesson plan within the unit. 

I hope that these are helpful! I'm sure I'll modify them as I continue organizing my lessons into unit, but I'm really excited to be totally organized. I promise to share all of my lessons with everyone, because I love getting ideas from others. Teaching rocks.