Algonquin Water Song

November is Native American Heritage Month in the United States, and I am bringing you along with me on my learning journey as I seek to find meaningful and appropriate ways to recognize it in my elementary music classroom. As someone who did not grow up in North America and does not have any Native American heritage in my family, I have been...

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Music In Our Schools Month® 2025: "United Through Music" Song Bracket

This year the theme for Music In Our Schools Month® (MIOSM®) is "United through Music". I have been doing a "musical March madness"-style song bracket, where students listen to different songs each day and vote on their favorites, for several years now, and for the last several years I've tried to tie the songs into the annual theme...

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Call and Response Songs

One of the first things I teach in Kindergarten is call and response singing. After working on singing voice and echo singing, it's so fun when students are able to sing their own part independently with call and response songs! There are lots of great ones out there, but today I'm sharing my current top favorite call and response songs, as well as...

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Current Musicians for Native American Heritage Month

November is Native American Heritage Month in the United States. As someone who did not grow up in North America and does not have any Native American heritage in my family, I have been on a constant learning journey for the last two decades since moving to the United States to learn more about North American Indigenous music, and appropriate...

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