2019 Classroom Tour

Music Classroom Tour 2019!

Welcome to my classroom tour 2019!  This is my first classroom tour - I hope you enjoy my classroom as much as my students and I do!

This year my classroom was freshly painted so I had the opportunity to really move furniture around when they were finished and hang up all new posters.  I have had a Star Wars theme for the past several years, so with the new paint I decided I needed a new theme - Harry Potter!

When my kids first enter the room they look at the job chart and where their team circle is located.  To learn more about how I have organized this you can check out my blog post on classroom teams.

This next picture shows the entrance to my room with my Music Attendance binder where I mark attendance for each class as they enter the music room.

Here's a more zoomed out version of the front of my room where you can see my ActiveBoard and all the fun Harry Potter Rhythm and Dynamics Posters.

As you continue across the front of my room you can see the Harry Potter Signs and Symbols Poster on top of my white board.  You can also see where I post my PBIS posters.

This is where I keep the majority of my large drums - though they are pretty much scattered throughout the room.  Behind the curtains are my guitar storage, and the colorful baskets hold my non-pitched percussion instruments.  Behind my time period posters I keep my story books, CDs, and small manipulative and other classroom odds and ends.

Around the corner I have my three binders where we keep track of all the special things that go on in our classroom.  You can read more about that in my blog post about classroom teams - here.  Above the piano I have my Harry Potter solfege posters.  I love having these huge windows and large amounts of storage in my room - but I am lacking some wall space.  I made some good use of paper clips here - and turned my blinds into a make shift bulletin board.

Next to the piano and solfege posters are where we sit!  My kids alls it on risers.  I'm set up for Kindergarten here - I place colored dot spots down so they know where sit each time.  My 1st - 5th graders use a team system.  Again you can read more about that in my blog post about how I run teams in the classroom - here. Between the risers I have my Head Masters Chair - which the kids just love!

On the side of my shelf next to the risers I have my Orff Instrument posters.  This is also where I keep my Orff Instruments, movement props, textbooks, and extra art supplies.

The majority of my art supplies are kept in this cabinet in color coordinated buckets I got at Target.  On top of the supply cabinet I keep extra recorders and my file box containing all the music for The Wizarding World of Recorder.  On the shelf above I keep baskets labeled with each teacher's name so student's who own their own recorder can leave them in the classroom.

 Next to my supply cabinet is my sink and my PBIS Educational Decrees for how to take care of our Orff Instruments.

 Finally the newest addition to my room - these adorable team flags which one of my students made for my classroom!!!  We use them as meeting places and work spaces for small groups.  They are so unexpectedly useful and fit into my theme perfectly.  It's also so sweet how much time he put into making them - I LOVE THEM!

Well that pretty much sums up my classroom tour 2019!  I hope you enjoyed stopping by!