Easy2Plan
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Sylva, North Carolina, United States
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I am a k-8 music teacher and pianist with 23 years of experience teaching in the public schools as well as experience teaching in college and private piano. I hold a Master of Music degree in piano performance. I am also actively involved in church youth music ministry.
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Music Class Student Survey
Do you teach an elective? This survey is helpful given at the beginning or end of any music, chorus, or band elective class. This survey captures student interest levels for many typical music activities and song genres, and provides information on why students may sign up for or leave the elective. This useful information helps maintain a student oriented, highly motivational elective class. Three pages include two charts and five simple questions. Adaptations allowed to fit your own electi
6th - 12th
Other (Arts), Other (Performing Arts), Vocal Music
Also included in:Â Tools for Music Classroom Management Bundle
Smoky Mountain Landscape Backgrounds
I live in a really beautiful place. This product is a collection of 20 inspirational landscapes from the Great Smoky Mountains of Western NC where I live. These are original photos of places I have hiked. I love to use them in my teaching power points to add student appeal. Please feel free to edit or change them in any way you like. Intended use is for teacher created work, powerpoints, etc. These are copyrighted photos, please do not sell them individually. I need to get back out there an
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Other (Arts)
Rhythm Composer! Composing with printable Lego Rhythm Blocks
Exciting! Compose rhythm with Lego style music note cards. Time-tested music class favorite. Students have an empty blank whole measure. Students interact and manipulate printed rhythm note cards that fit in the correct fractional ratio to the blank measure. After experimenting with different combinations, they copy their rhythms onto a worksheet. They can then share the worksheet with a friend, or cut it into four parts and work on making different arrangements out of their four rhythm patt
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Art History, Music Composition
Teacher Care Cards
Are you looking for a sweet card for a teacher, parent, intern, or even your students? Short on time? Need something you can print? This is for you! This product features three beautiful cards created by my sixteen year old daughter Annie. The first card is designed towards welcoming your student intern to school. The second card is a welcome to community card, suitable for a teacher or a student who is new to your school. The third is a thank you for your hard work style card. All the ca
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Graphic Arts, Poetry, School Counseling
Reindeer Names
Super simple graphic resource! Elevate your teaching with hallway posters designed to help your students remember their reindeer names. Teaching the reindeer names to "Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer" is the hardest part of the song. Each colorful reindeer is featured as a pdf on a snowy winter background. You can print in color or gray scale to save prints. Laminate for year after year use. The background art is my own. Credit for the original cute reindeer png goes to zoom in photograp
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Art
Color by Rhythm Shamrock, Differentiated Levels
Super Simple and fun resource! Student worksheet to color by rhythm. Three coloring sheets, K-1, 2-3, 4-5. Or you decide the level that is appropriate for your students. Level 1: Students color by recognizing the kind of note it is - green for all quarter notes (Ta). Blue for all paired eighths (Ti Ti). Brown for all Rests (Quarter rest only.) Level 2: Color by beat count of rhythm using only quarter, beamed eighths, half, and quarter rests. (1 beat rhythms, 2 beat rhythms, and res
K - 5th
Graphic Arts, Instrumental Music, Music Composition
Unit 2 Pitch Summative Assessment 5th Grade
This is a two page summative assessment for Unit 2 Pitch for fifth grade. Part A: The teacher plays a familiar solfege melodic pattern on the piano, students circle the matching response out of four patterns. 3 points each. Part B: Pitch and Solfege Names for Middle C- Treble C 3 points each. Part C: Spelling Chords, D, G, A, C major. D minor and A minor are bonus. 1 point each box. Part D: Symbol Id including sharp, flat, natural, treble clef, bass clef, repeat sign. 3 points each
5th - 8th
Art
Performance Check List
Performances don't have to be stressful! I have twenty-three years of experience organizing multiple concerts each year involving hundreds of students at a time across multiple grade levels. Experience allows you to try things in different ways, and I have found a few tips and tricks that make performances easier to manage. There is always a lot to do to get them ready, and a lot that I could forget. Check lists always help me stay organized and focused on tasks that I can control. This si
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Drama, Other (Arts), Other (Performing Arts)
Also included in:Â Tools for Music Classroom Management Bundle
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About the store
Experience
I am a k-8 music teacher and pianist with 23 years of experience teaching in the public schools as well as experience teaching in college and private piano. I hold a Master of Music degree in piano performance. I am also actively involved in church youth music ministry.
Teaching style
I have a very energetic teaching style. I prefer to be in front of my group, leading the students through a variety of very quick paced activities. I love to include technology into all my lessons and I enjoy including lots of movement for all of my learners. I believe that to learn music, one must do it! My lessons incorporate elements of Orff, Kodaly, Improvisation, and a lot of multimedia. "Life is a Song, Love is the Music."
Awards & shining teacher moments
Summa Cum Laude, graduate
Frank Henley Piano Competition 2nd place
Frank Henley Piano Competition, 1st place
University of Louisiana Concerto Competition, 3rd place
Gardner Webb Concerto Competition, 1st place
Western Carolina Concerto Competition, 1st place
Swain County East Elementary Teacher of the Year, 2024-2025
Boyce Deitz Honored Educator Scholarship, 2025-2026
My own education history
Formal Education
North Carolina Teaching Certificate, Western Carolina University May 2004
Master of Music, University of Louisiana, Lafayette. May 2002
Bachelor of Arts in piano performance, Summa Cum Laude Western Carolina University, 2000
High School diploma with a concentration in percussion. North Carolina School of Arts 1995-1996
Private Teachers
2001-2002 Dr. Alexander Dossin, University of Louisiana
2000-2001 Dr. William Chapman Nyaho, University of
Louisiana
1996-2000 Dr. Lillian Pearson, Western Carolina
University
1995-1996 Dr. Clifton Mathews, North Carolina School of
Arts
1992-1995 Ivan Gibby, Bryson City, NC
Master classes
2000 Dr. Nellie Ben-Or, London Guildhall
Conservatory
Additional biographical information
I am a married mother of three beautiful children living in rural Western North Carolina. We farm our own food in the summer and I am dedicated to home food preservation. My own children have taught me so much about teaching. My oldest two are academically gifted, and my youngest has severe special needs. They are a constant source of joy and inspiration. The most important thing in my life is my relationship with Jesus and serving God in any way that I can. I strive to be an example for my children in everything I am and do. I delight in seeing others learn and in sharing the joys that music can bring.
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