My students are young musicians yearning for more musical knowledge. We are beginning our third year as a school, in the midst of a pandemic. As a choice school, my students come from all over the district to our school to integrate STEAM into their curriculum. We laid the foundation for our music education journey for the past two years! Now it is time to build upon their knowledge!
As a STEAM school, we integrate all subject levels.
Students make meaningful connections between music and what they are learning in reading, math, science, and social studies. We are constantly looking for new ways to connect across subjects and create hands-on, authentic experiences to learn, feel, and express concepts.
"Tell me, I forget; Show me, I remember; Involve me, I understand," said Carl Orff. Music education should be hands-on and authentic. I believe Carl Orff was a music educator before his time, advocating for a hands-on musical experience where students get to sing, play, and move. We strive to accomplish that with every music lesson at my school. Students leave my classroom having sung, played, and moved with smiles on their faces.
My Project
We have a strings program for my elementary students. We have 15 music stands that we use for the program to hold our music. In addition to using these stands for the strings program, we use them in our general music classes when playing recorder or other instruments, Orff Ensembles, and Chorus as well.
My amazing students are really good at organizing the stands so they take up the least amount of space.
However, they still do take up a lot of space despite this. A music stand cart is a great organizer that keeps the stands in one place. They are easy to get on and off the cart. In addition, it is an efficient way to store the stands, taking up half the amount of room they would usually take up without a cart!
This will help with transporting the music stands to and from the stage for performances. Instead of making a bunch of trips and traveling with multiple music stands at a time, we can simply push the card to the performance destination. This makes for less trips, less exhaustion, and more organization! This is a difficult time right now and my students need to be able to sit 6 feet apart. I'm constantly moving stands out of the way because there isn't a good place to fit them all. A stand cart will help them take up half the amount of room they usually do, helping me stay organized and giving the students enough room to be socially distant!
More than a third of students from low‑income households
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