Schedule Dashboard for Teacher Planners

My schedule this year looks nothing like it ever has before, and keeping track of where I'm supposed to be when and doing what has been an unprecedented challenge! This planner addition has been a life-saver for me this fall and it has proven to be even more versatile than I ever imagined.This year because we are on a rotational schedule where we see...

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Editing Boxes in Your Teacher Planner

With schedules so up in the air this year, I have already had to switch the format of my weekly lesson planning pages several times, and we're barely a month into the school year! If you are using a #PlanMyWholeLife teacher planner, you can easily edit the number of boxes you have for each day to suit your changing needs before printing your pages.In...

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The Unexpected Realities of Hybrid Teaching

Amidst the ongoing covid19 pandemic, I have been teaching elementary music in a hybrid model for about a month now. In our district, families were given the option of keeping children home in a fully online distance learning program or sending them to school in a socially-distanced classroom 4 days a week. I teach both the online learners and the in-person...

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Bickle Bockle Social Distanced Modification

One of the songs I use to practice mi, sol, la and half notes with my 2nd graders is Bickle Bockle (also known as Ickle Ockle). My students always love it because of the game, and I love that they get a lot of practice repeating the song as they play, so they can internalize the rhythmic and pitch concepts. But this year with social distancing protocols...

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