Classroom Management Blog Posts

So, I am in love with a bookmarking site called Symbaloo.com.  So far, I’ve mainly used it to bookmark videos for movement in the classroom but it has so many possibilites. I have started boards for composers and listening videos … Conti...

So, I absolutely LOVE the anchor charts I’ve been seeing on blogs and on Pinterest.  Apparently, anchor charts are supposed to be minimalistic so as not to confuse the children with extra information and art.  Oops!  I guess I can’t &#...

Being a music teacher is a very public job…….public as in your colleagues get frequent opportunities to see the fruits of your effort. General education teachers have test scores that represent their and students’ success in the cla...

Being on a military base, we have students coming and going all the time.  I don’t know about you, fellow teachers, but I don’t like being called “miss,” “teacher,” or any other variation of that.  I try very har...

I don’t know about you but the end of the semester wreaks havoc on my classroom.  With three performances between Thanksgiving and Christmas (because I’m crazy), there was so much going on, I couldn’t keep up with the mess.  Also,...

I started the year with one giant binder with seating charts, grade charts, and parent contacts for every grade level I teach.  Yeah, that didn’t work.  It was WAY too cumbersome and I found myself not using it like I … Continue reading...

    Entrance I have posted about this bulletin board before.  This is just a redo. You can see more about it HERE. Office Classroom Area Thanks for looking!

I keep in contact with parents but I’m not the best at keeping track of it.  My goal for this year is to be better at it.  Below is the sheet that I’m going to use in my notebook.  Even … Continue reading →...

Inservice starts exactly one week from today and students come the following Monday.  Needless to say, I’m already in prep frenzy.  Fortunately, my room is just about finished (pictures coming soon) so I’ve been working on management an...

Year 2007, I left and worked overseas when my daughter was just a year and nine months old. She can only utter couple of syllables such as “ma-ma” that time and I never get to hear her first full words. I noticed her development in speaking only...

Year 2007, I left and worked overseas when my daughter was just a year and nine months old. She can only utter couple of syllables such as “ma-ma” that time and I never get to hear her first full words. I noticed her development in speaking only...

My kids are so excited to play instruments……It doesn’t matter how often we do it, they just get so excited…..so excited that they tend to bang excessively on the instruments reminders be damned. Thus, “parmesan playing&#...

If you’ve ever worked with 4 year olds, you know that their attention span is about is about five minutes max.  Working on these plays was almost torture at times.  Don’t get me wrong, they were as sweet as can … Continue reading...

Remember this? And this? Well, the transformation is just about complete.  Beefer came to visit me this weekend and offered me about 20 “shoebox” containers from her closet she recently cleaned out.  Sight unseen, I said I’d take...

Remember this? And this? Well, the transformation is just about complete.  Beefer came to visit me this weekend and offered me about 20 “shoebox” containers from her closet she recently cleaned out.  Sight unseen, I said I’d take...

Tweet The Five Golden Rules of Good Classroom Management Are you an ESL teacher with classroom management problems? I hope not, but if you are reading this, it might be the case. Have you got a handful of troublemakers who wear you out? Or has the wh...

In case you missed any of the centers I’m using in my classroom right now, here are the links to each post. Enjoy! Wii Center Computer Center Listening Center iPod Center Composer Center Game Center   Thanks for reading!   … Con...

In case you missed any of the centers I’m using in my classroom right now, here are the links to each post. Enjoy! Wii Center Computer Center Listening Center iPod Center Composer Center Game Center   Thanks for reading!   … Con...

Okay, now it’s time for what I like to call “Common Sense with Cara.” If you do not know how to play a game, what do you do? These are the answers I get: “ask the teacher” (because she is … Continue reading →...

Okay, now it’s time for what I like to call “Common Sense with Cara.” If you do not know how to play a game, what do you do? These are the answers I get: “ask the teacher” (because she is … Continue reading →...