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Music Classroom Set Up

Hello, and welcome to a new school year. I am already two days in with my students, and August has just been a whirlwind, so I am just now getting around to putting up all of the pictures I took of my room as I was putting it all together. I am linking up with Mrs. Miracle's post, "My Music Room Set Up". You can click this picture to see her room set up as well as several other music teachers who have linked up at the bottom of her post. Let's be honest, I have no idea where I would be without Pinterest and other music bloggers when it comes to setting up my room, so I am really excited to share my room this year!
                    

I have a huge room.
                   
It is a blessing in so many ways that I can have plenty of room for any folk dancing, the sound is great, I get natural light from outside and the high ceilings make it seem even more open.

There are a few downsides to my room though. Nearly all my walls are covered with windows, white board, and cabinets, so I really don't have as much wall space as I wish, and I have not gotten really brave and put anything on the walls really high up. 

I decided I wanted to go with a nautical theme in my room this year after seeing some really cute clip art and being inspired by a few images online. I have two small bulletin boards and one big one and that's about all of the wall space I have. On my first board, I decided that I wanted to have something with the lines and spaces of the staff, so I came up with this board:
For my big board, by the entrance in the back of my room, I decided to replace my quote board from last year with this new quote:

I made the lighthouse out of wrapping paper, the bottom of the board is burlap scrunched and stapled. I really like the other boarder I used. It was double sided border and has animal print on the reverse side. I figured I could save it for whenever I do a "Wild About Music" board.

In the limited wall space beside my window, I hung my recorder rules.


 These bookshelves house my small Orff instruments, all of my classroom percussion instruments, vocal exploration toys, puppets, small buckets and tin cans for bucket drumming, and a few of my manipulatives.

Last year I created a story corner in my room and I love it. I like having my books displayed so that I can easily find what I am looking for and have a dedicated place to put them. I also have my movement/folk dancing word wall in this corner. 


I found these cute fish magnets at Dollar Tree, and I have 16 small heartbeats and 8 larger heartbeat magnets. Those are SO useful!!!  

On my other small bulletin board, Solfa Street has morphed into Solfa Sea this year! I've just been using push pins on them so I can take them off and add them with different grades. I keep a lot of manipulatives (rhythm flashcards, student staffs, high/low charts, pointers, etc.) on this table that I use frequently, and it's a good place to lay what I will need for the day. I'm also using Aileen Miracle's "I can" objectives for each grade level. I love how they work even when I am preparing a concept!

Because of my limited wall space and my addiction to pinterest, the last two years I have used the sides of my file cabinets as makeshift bulletin boards. I used wrapping paper for the background and just taped trim around it. I plan to use one for a "Composer of the Month" and on another I am thinking about creating a magnetic tone ladder. I'll post pictures if I do! :) 


                   And I have my music rules are displayed on the board.                       
 

Thanks for peeking in my room! What do you think of the theme this year?

6 comments:

  1. Love your room...the scrunched burlap is such a nice touch! (And it's really nice to see my I can statements posted like that...thanks for the shout out!) Glad you joined the party! :)

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    1. Thank you so much for hosting and for taking the time to write out all of those "I can..." statements! Must have taken forever!

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  2. I love your room! Thank you for sharing all your ideas! Where did you find the small heartbeat magnets? I have been looking for those!

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    1. I purchased them at a KMEK workshop. I think they made them with a die cut machine. The bigger ones were decorations from Party City around Valentines and I just added magnets to the back. :)

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  3. What a lovely classroom! I would like to thank you for your cute music rules. I purchased them with the owl /bird theme from TpT and am enjoying them so much in my own music classroom, especially the songs that go along with them. I love seeing how other music teachers decorate. I have a small portable classroom so I'm always looking for new ideas. I especially love the idea of turning the sides of my file cabinets into bulletin boards!

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    1. Thank you so much! I spent my first year in a portable, so I can totally relate! Glad you found some new ideas here! :)

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