The Elementary Music Life with Erik Whitehill

Erik Whitehill

Come and join me, elementary general music teachers... Come for a discussion of general music standards, objectives, and practices. Come for new material you can use in your classroom. Come for a funny story. Come for support after a hard day. Come to be respected, inspired, and celebrated. Come so I am not alone talking to a monkey puppet.

Episodes

  1. 01/28/2021

    Darkness and Light

    This episode is an essay I wrote as I am struggling with teaching elementary general music via live stream on the internet. It is a call to focus more on student connection and less on state standards.

    13 min

  2. 10/20/2020

    Guided Meditation for General Music Teachers

    Feeling run down? Feeling uninspired? Feeling stressed? This short episode contains a framework for guided meditation in the hopes you can incorporate self-care in your teaching.

    12 min

  3. 09/13/2020

    Of Synchronous Streaming and Sticks...

    In this episode, I have provided two major segments: My top 10 suggestions for synchronously streaming elementary music classesSome selected passages from my Kindergarten Lunch and Recess Duty JournalI feature a lot of websites in this episode. Here are the links: Synesthesia Listen and Draw Lesson from Teach Rockhttps://teachrock.org/lesson/drawing-music-hearing-colors-seeing-soundsGo Noodle - Guided Danceshttps://app.gonoodle.com/Dallas Symphony Orchestra - Make Your Own Inhttps://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/activities/make-your-own-instrument"Sorida" from Mrs. Ankrum's Music Roomhttps://youtu.be/JwpGibkBsD0"Double This Double That" from the Responsive Classroomhttps://youtu.be/g4ea2GmBqFoDan Brown and 'Wild Symphony'https://youtu.be/cuIDgTUkhlwMo Willems and 'Because'https://youtu.be/lh7S5r78tS0Incrediboxhttps://www.incredibox.com/Isle of Tunehttps://thefwa.com/cases/isle-of-tune Chrome Music Lab: Melody Maker and Rhythmhttps://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Melody-Maker/https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Rhythm/Tone Matrix Reduxhttps://www.maxlaumeister.com/tonematrix/Groove Pizzahttps://apps.musedlab.org/groovepizza/?museid=pS1APISRU&Virtual Instrumentshttps://www.virtualmusicalinstruments.com/https://femurdesign.com/theremin/https://www.musick8kids.com/html/play_bw.php?bwswitch=TRUEhttps://www.google.com/logos/2020/mbira/r4/mbira20.html?hl=en&ddllb=1&doodle=122734981&gl=zwhttps://apps.makeymakey.com/bongos/https://www.musictheory.net/pianoVirtual Field Trips at Google Arts and Culturehttps://artsandculture.google.com/Google JamBoardhttps://jamboard.google.com/

    28 min

  4. 09/06/2020

    A Short Bio and Some Encouragement

    In this episode, there’ll be two segments. The first is a brief biography telling how I ended up living an elementary music life and a bit of credibility building for those who don’t know me. The second part is an encouragement for all of us as we struggle to teach in this time of pandemic.

    16 min
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Come and join me, elementary general music teachers... Come for a discussion of general music standards, objectives, and practices. Come for new material you can use in your classroom. Come for a funny story. Come for support after a hard day. Come to be respected, inspired, and celebrated. Come so I am not alone talking to a monkey puppet.

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