Lessons falling into place.

I am officially at that bittersweet time of year that marks the end so close! It's awesome because you realize how quick summer will be here, but scary to a music teacher with performances because they come up quick, and then can be stressful for the teacher trying to come up with lessons for the end of the year! I am all of the above. 3/4 of my students will have performances coming up, so it's getting into crunch time for that, but then I have 2 general music classes that I was struggling with how to end the year. And then it all worked out!!

A couple years ago a friend sent me a book about music class Olympics. I have perused it and used a game or two, but never dove into the full "Olympic" aspect. But then I realized, wait, there are enough games, I have enough students and enough time that we could really make this work!! So Tuesday I presented the new unit to my students. I randomly assigned teams and had them select countries to represent and played our first game. I also explained that after spring break they would be making posters for their countries. The kids seemed pretty into it. They picked some great countries to represent and full participated in our "rhythm relay race". I am actually really excited to continue this unit and use it as a culminating event for our year!!

Thankful my 5th graders are on board with the idea!!