**Begin the new year/term with a discussion on setting goals! ** Having the students write down their goal/s and how they plan to achieve them takes the goal/s out of the students’ heads and makes them REAL! Place the completed page in the front of their class workbook. Writing goals forces students to be specific and adds clarity to their thoughts. Writing down our goals takes them from our thoughts to something more concrete and real! This free resource supplies you with teaching slides and student response sheets! ♥ CLICK here to check out more quality, ready-to-use resources from the MTR store! You may also like this Music Theory - MODULATION in MUSIC All rights reserved by the author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. TES-Paid License

32 beautifully bright and colorful Instruments of the Orchestra cards that will make a stunning and educational addition to your music classroom. PRINTABLE FORMAT. Print, laminate and display on your classroom bulletin board. WHAT’S INCLUDED: One TITLE Card: Instruments of the Orchestra Four CATEGORY cards, each in a different color: The Percussion Family The Woodwind Family The String Family The Brass Family One card for each family showing all the instruments together. Included on each card are: The name of the instrument in bold, colorful letters A picture of the instrument The range of the instrument and A colored border matching that of the category it belongs to, i.e. all string family instruments have a green border. Double click on the images above for a closer look of what’s included in the resource! ♥ CLICK here to check out more quality, ready-to-use resources from the MTR store! You may also like this Key Signature Posters All rights reserved by the author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. TES-Paid License

Are you needing help introducing composition? Teaching Middle School and Jr. High School music students how to write a melody is not always easy. The worksheets and activities in this resource set out a step-by-step method that students will understand and enjoy. I have used the process outlined in this resource to teach music composition for many years with my classes, and it works without fail! My students call it my melody writing recipe! PRINTABLE FORMAT This product contains a PDF and a PPT version of the resource. WHAT’S INCLUDED: A NINE-page Teachers Resource that explains in detail, step by step, a process for young musicians to follow when writing their first four-bar melody. A TEN-page Student Workbook I show the slides in the Teachers Resource on a digital projector and demonstrate the information on a whiteboard as we work our way through slides 2 - 9. You may choose to have your students follow and work in their Student Workbooks as you go through the information OR have them watch the demonstration first and then work through their booklet. The students then take the knowledge and process they are learnt to compose TWO 8-bar melodies. The final TWO slides in the Student Workbook can be copied and reused for further melody writing exercises. Students will need to have a little background knowledge of keys and chords Suitable for: Years 7-11 Double click on the images above for a closer look of what’s included in the resource! ♥ CLICK here to check out more quality, ready-to-use resources from the MTR store! You may also like this Music Composition - TEN Melody Writing Projects All rights reserved by the author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. TES-Paid License

These beautifully presented music room rules posters are colorful classroom decor. Displaying them on your bulletin board will help remind students of class rules in a positive and visual way. PRINTABLE FORMAT. Print, laminate and display on your classroom bulletin board. WHAT’S INCLUDED: There are 5 PRINTABLE posters to print and display on your classroom bulletin board There is one poster/page for each letter in the word MUSIC and one rule per letter. M - make good choices U - use equipment properly S - speak when the time is right I - involve yourself in all activities C - cooperate with others -The poster size is 8.5"x 11" in landscape orientation WHAT TEACHERS HAVE SAID: “These are the perfect rules for the music room. Each rule for the letters in MUSIC are exactly the rules I use in my class. I am very inept with artistic ability and these are so cute! They fit my room well!” (Thank you, Donna). Double click on the images above for a closer look of what’s included in the resource! ♥ CLICK here to check out more quality, ready-to-use resources from the MTR store! You may also like this Classroom Decor Set: Class Rules POSTERS Set 3 All rights reserved by the author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. TES-Paid License

Are you teaching a recorder unit? Decorate your music classroom and help support student learning with this clear, colourful set of recorder-fingering posters. The posters/charts will help reinforce correct fingering and treble pitch note recognition. There are 41 PRINTABLE pages to print, laminate and display. Perfect to use as music classroom decor for your music classrooms! WHAT’S INCLUDED: There is a chart/poster for every pitch from middle C to A above the staff – including #'s and b’s, for the Baroque Soprano Recorder. Each poster includes the letter name, a visual of the fingering, and the note position on the staff. The poster size is 8.5"x 11" in portrait orientation in PDF format. CHECK OUT the PREVIEW to see a lot more! ♥ CLICK here to check out more quality, ready-to-use resources from the MTR store! You may also like this Music Decor: Class Rules POSTERS Set 1 All rights reserved by the author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. TES-Paid License

These beautifully presented music room rules posters are colorful classroom decor. Displaying them on your bulletin board will help remind students of class rules in a positive and visual way. PRINTABLE FORMAT. Print, laminate and display on your classroom bulletin board. WHAT’S INCLUDED: There are 5 PRINTABLE posters to print and display on your classroom bulletin board There is one poster/page for each letter in the word MUSIC and one rule per letter. M - Make wise choices so you and others can learn. U - Use good manners and be respectful of others. S - Speak, sing and play when directed by your teacher. I - Involve yourself in all activities. C - Care for others and the music equipment. -The poster size is 8.5"x 11" in landscape orientation WHAT TEACHERS HAVE SAID: “I have these up in my room, along with a number of other of your resources. My new principal came through the other day looking at the classrooms and I got all sorts of good comments about the quality of my visuals. Thank you, thank you, thank you. :-)” (Thank you, Alison M.). Double click on the images above for a closer look of what’s included in the resource! ♥ CLICK here to check out more quality, ready-to-use resources from the MTR store! You may also like this MUSIC DECOR: Class Rules POSTERS Set 2 All rights reserved by the author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. TES-Paid License

SIX THANKSGIVING MUSIC COMPOSITION ACTIVITIES Have your students compose and perform their very own songs for THANKSGIVING!! ♦ This file contains SIX guided music compositions activities and ♦ Teacher Ideas and Suggestions. ♦ Each of the SIX music composition/song activities comes in TWO versions, color, which is perfect for you the teacher to project as you explain/model the activity AND black and white for the student to color while they wait for inspiration OR when they are completed their song! ♫ Students compose their very own THANKSGIVING song by choosing from the given bars/measures of rhythm with words and placing them in an order of their choosing. ♫ The more advanced students in your class can use the given measures/bars as a springboard for creating their own THANKSGIVING verse for their song and using the templates provided to notate their song! ♫ Students can only use the specified pitches in their music composition. This is specified for FIVE of the activities ♫♫ NOW INCLUDED is a song writing activity sheet where the pitches have NOT been specified. Teachers can use this sheet to draw the clef and pitches they have been working on in class. Use this resource to develop/assess understanding of: ♦ Pitch ♦ Rhythm ♦ Words and rhythms ♦ Standard notation on the treble staff Completed activities/songs can then be used for: ♦ A class concert ♦ A wall/bulletin board display for your music classroom

♫ This is a one page worksheet designed to guide students responses after listening to a piece of music.

Help your students understand Stage Fright/Performance Anxiety **what it is, **why it happens and **strategies to control it! This is a 26 page PDF file focusing on Performance Anxiety or Stage Fright The file: Describes the mental, behavioral and physiological symptoms of stage fright. Discusses Fear versus Adrenalin and how performance adrenaline is a necessary and positive part of performance. Gives TEN easy to implement tips/strategies for reducing stage fright. There are also FOUR worksheets and ONE written response page for students to record their individual responses to stage fright! If students understand stage fright they will be more able to control it!

Students work on research, technology, reading, comprehension and writing skills as they research the life and music of composer J.S. BACH There are TWO different activity sheets and TWO versions of each. These are designed to suit different ages/abilities. There are TWO versions of the first activity sheet. They are THE SAME except for the way the students access the internet to obtain the answers. One uses clickable links to the sites containing the answers, and the other, QR codes. There are also TWO versions included for the second activity sheet. It has been designed as an independent mini biography research project. This activity sheet contains SIX questions about the life and music of the composer. An ANSWER sheet is also included! Depending on the technology available to you in your classroom, the student(s) will click on the links provided OR use a QR reader app to scan the QR code. (The QR reader app I use is I-nigma. It is a FREE download in iTunes, and I have never had any problems with it. Students are to read the information on the website/s to find the answer the questions. Ideal for differentiation in your classroom! Double click on the images above for a closer look of what’s included in the resource! ♥ CLICK here to check out more quality, ready-to-use resources from the MTR store! You may also like this BEETHOVEN Research Activity Sheets All rights reserved by the author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. TES-Paid License

Introduce your students to JOHN WILLIAMS and HIS MUSIC music with this FREE download! This file contains two different foldables in** both color and b/w. ** MEET JOHN WILLIAMS foldable: Students record facts they are learned about the composer and his music JOHN WILLIAMS and HIS MUSIC: This foldable is a perfect accompaniment to foldable 1, or can be used on its own for students to respond to the music of John Williams during a listening lesson. A one-page Biography Report graphic organizer A page with QR Codes and LINKS for Biography Research will help your students find appropriate websites with the information they are searching for. Instructions on how to assemble the foldable are also included! Instructions on how to assemble the foldable is also included. Excellent addition to your Composer of the Month! Completed foldables can be pasted into student workbooks/listening journals OR displayed on a bulletin board. Double click on the images above for a closer look of what’s included in the resource! ♥ CLICK here to check out more quality, ready-to-use resources from the MTR store! You may also like this [MUSIC COMPOSITION: A Step by Step Approach] (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11282902) All rights reserved by the author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. TES-Paid License

For Your March Music Lessons - St Patrick’s Day Music Math. It’s a Free Music Download There are TWO music math activity sheets in this file to cater for two different grade levels. Students are to complete the music math equations and colour the St Patrick’s Day image. Double click on the images above for a closer look of what’s included in the resource! ♥ CLICK here to check out more quality, ready-to-use resources from the MTR store! You may also like this [MUSIC COMPOSITION: A Step by Step Approach] (https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11282902) All rights reserved by the author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. TES-Paid License

A useful handout for your students to use as a reference for their rhythm work! Rhythm Charts: Notes and Rests in Simple Time A useful handout for your students to use as a reference for their rhythm work. It is particularly good to use in conjunction with your aural work i.e. rhythm dictations. You could also print out on A3, laminate and post on your music room wall as a visual reminder This is the one resource that I am STILL using with all of my music classes after 25 plus years of teaching. Suitable for: Years 7-11 Double click on the images above for a closer look of what’s included in the resource! ♥ CLICK here to check out more quality, ready-to-use resources from the MTR store! You may also like this MUSIC COMPOSITION: A Step by Step Approach All rights reserved by the author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. TES-Paid License

Give your students the feeling of achievement and success WITH THESE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC CERTIFICATES! This file now contains 118 editable certificates making it possible for you to add your students’ names! That’s 58 MORE awards certificates!!! There are 14 different designs to choose from and include awards for: Excellence Achievement Effort Commitment and General certificates so you can create and personalize your own specific award. Perfect to use for your year-end or end of term activities! Double click on the images above for a closer look of what’s included in the resource! ♥ CLICK here to check out more quality, ready-to-use resources from the MTR store! You may also like this Music Theory Worksheets All rights reserved by the author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. TES-Paid License

Instruments of the Orchestra Word Search ♫ This Word Search Puzzle contains 30 orchestral instruments. ♫ An ANSWER key is provided: ♫ The puzzle can be used as part of a sub lesson or as an additional resource for your Instruments of the Orchestra unit. PLEASE NOTE: This puzzle is also available in the ‘TEN Instrument Word Search Puzzles’ resource

Review music theory during Halloween season music lessons with this set of no-prep fun and educational worksheets! This PDF file contains 27 worksheets in TWO formats: PDF printable and Google Slides, covering the following music concepts: Names of Notes and Rests (4 worksheets but TWO versions. One set using North American terminology and the other using British Terminology) Treble Pitch Bass Pitch Alto Pitch Music Signs and Symbols Key Signatures Also suitable for cover lessons. Suitable for: Years 5-7 Double click on the images above for a closer look of what’s included in the resource! ♥ CLICK here to check out more quality, ready-to-use resources from the MTR store! You may also like this Halloween Treble Pitch Activities All rights reserved by the author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. TES-Paid License

ELTON JOHN biography research worksheets and music listening lesson activities & PRINT and DIGITAL pages provided Suitable for sub-lessons. Bulletin board pages are also included to create a Musician of the Month display for your Middle and Junior High School Music Students. -This resource contains: FOUR different biography research activities. Two online links are included with each activity to help students with their research. ONE Timeline Research Activity. It contains two online links to help students with their research. ONE Comparative Listening Activity. Students are provided with links to 4-5 ELTON JOHN songs and a table to complete with descriptions of the elements of music. TWO Listening Response Activities. Links to the songs are provided. MUSICIAN of the Month Bulletin Board Pages: ONE portrait image of Elton John and ONE page for each letter of his name. TEN Easel digital pages with CLICKABLE LINKS. RESEARCH and LISTENING LINKS are included, making this resource suitable for classroom and distance learning. Ideal for differentiation in your classroom! Double click on the images above for a closer look of what’s included in the resource! ♥ CLICK here to check out more quality, ready-to-use resources from the MTR store! You may also like this GRIEG Music Composer Study and Worksheets All rights reserved by the author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. TES-Paid License

Students work on research, technology, reading, comprehension and writing skills as they research the life and music of composer Sergei Prokofiev. There are TWO different activity sheets and TWO versions of each. These are designed to suit different ages/abilities. There are TWO versions of the first activity sheet. They are THE SAME except for the way the students access the internet to obtain the answers. One uses clickable links to the sites containing the answers, and the other, QR codes. WHAT’S INCLUDED: This activity sheet contains SIX questions about the life and music of the composer. *An ANSWER sheet is also included! Depending on the technology available to you in your classroom, the student(s) will click on the links provided OR use a QR reader app to scan the QR code. Students are to read the information on the website/s to find the answer to the questions. There are also TWO versions included for the second activity sheet. It has been designed as an independent mini-biography research project. Students will research FIVE-SIX facts about the composer and record them in the graphic organizer. They will then write an informative paragraph about the life and music of the composer. Ideal for differentiation in your classroom! Double click on the images above for a closer look of what’s included in the resource! ♥ CLICK here to check out more quality, ready-to-use resources from the MTR store! You may also like this GRIEG Music Composer Study and Worksheets All rights reserved by the author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. TES-Paid License

A fun way for music students to practise their note reading, rhythm and sight-singing skills! WHAT’S INCLUDED: SIX Christmas Music Mystery Stories An answer sheet is provided for each of the stories. HOW TO USE: In order for students to complete each story, they will need to identify the given music excerpts from well-known Christmas carols and songs. The missing words of the story will be the lyrics from the excerpts! To complete the story students could write the missing words under the music excerpts or rewrite the story. EXTENSION ACTIVITIES COULD INCLUDE: Creating theory questions based on the excerpts given and Have students create their own Christmas mystery story! This is a fun way for music students to practice their note reading, rhythm and sight-singing skills! Suitable for Middle School Students and Up

Make teaching music symbols fun with these engaging CHRISTMAS COLOR BY MUSIC ACTIVITIES. This set makes it easy for you to plan meaningful academic Christmas music lessons to teach and review MUSIC SYMBOLS. Colour by Music sheets is a fun way to practice and review music concepts, enabling students to memorize and recall quickly and easily. There are ELEVEN different images used in the 24 pages: PRINTABLE FORMAT: Print and handout to your music students. WHAT’S INCLUDED: This set contains 24 Christmas Music Coloring Activities consisting of: 12 set glyphs and 12 templates for the students (or you the teacher) to create their own Music Symbol Glyph. CONCEPTS COVERED INCLUDE: Note and rest names Dynamics Treble staff pitch names Bass staff pitch names Alto staff pitch names PERFECT TO USE FOR: music centers music sub-tubs lessons are a NO PREP option for teachers and make great homework sheets A content packed, valuable resource that is complete and ready to go! Suitable for: Years 7-11 Double click on the images above for a closer look of what’s included in the resource! ♥ CLICK here to check out more quality, ready-to-use resources from the MTR store! You may also like this Winter Colour by Music Symbols - British Terminology All rights reserved by the author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. TES-Paid License