For the next few months, this entire site will be under construction. You'll still be able to access this blog, and I'll try to keep everything as accessible as possible until the final product is launched, but don't be surprised if you see menus leading nowhere and pages with nothing on them for a little while.
For those that are curious, I have decided to sort this site into 4 sections:
Introductory Series:
In this section I will cover the basics of music theory that are useful in a primary classroom, the essential how to, and, most importantly, why. If you’re still on the fence on whether it’s worth taking time out of your day to teach music, please give me 15 minutes to change your mind, I promise it is worth it. I will be outlining the benefits of learning music at school, demystifying some music myths, and giving you a general idea of what to expect when starting out with introducing music into your classroom.
How To Play:
This section outlines each of the instruments likely to be in a classroom and how to play them. Each instrument will have its own page, so you can easily find resources for whatever you happen to have available to you. This will also include things like voice, percussion and drums, which will be useful even if you have no instruments on hand (anything's a percussion instrument if you whack it hard enough!)
Music Lessons:
These will be a number of ideas to get you started that are suitable for a range of students, with the assumption that the teacher taking the lesson will have few resources beyond what's outlined here on this site. These will include some basic music theory, games to play on different instruments, simple composition tasks, and making your own instruments.
Integration:
This section will be functionally quite similar to the Music Lessons section, except that the lesson/activity ideas will be focused on integrating music with other subjects at school. This not only helps teachers feel more familiar with the content, but also brings relevance and context to many aspects of music. How do sound waves work? What noises do our native animals make? How do time signatures work (spoiler: it's very mathematical!)
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