Kayla Krizek

I used this short test/quiz with my 3rd grade students after 2 lessons and some flashcard work with dynamics. In this test, students have to match words (forte) with the appropriate meaning (loud), as well as abbreviations to their correct dynamic. The bonus question on the bottom was something I had casually mentioned in class one day, and I was surprised at how many students remembered and answered correctly! My 3rd graders were challenged by this test. Even my strongest students took time

Downloadable PDF includes links to basic melodic patterns transcribed in Google Chrome Music Lab Songmaker based on three songs made popular by the movie KPop Demon Hunters - Golden, Takedown, and Soda Pop. Included are a couple of ideas for using these links with your own students in an elementary or middle school music classroom! Or even high school - these songs are so catchy, everyone is singing and playing them! Chrome Music Lab Songmaker is free and easy to use!

I use this simple survey as bell work (Harry Wong) or an exit slip with my middle school and junior high choir students on their first day of choir. It's a quick, easy way to find out lots more about your students and quickly determine who your pianists/strong sight-readers/experienced singers might be! It's a way to start to personally get to know your students and have a few laughs, too! Someone always writes something funny! PLEASE NOTE: This is a Word document to allow you to CHANGE some of

Downloadable PDF includes links to basic melodic patterns transcribed in Google Chrome Music Lab Songmaker based on four songs made popular by Taylor Swift - All Too Well, Cruel Summer, Blank Space, and Shake It Off. Included are a couple of ideas for using these links with your own students in an elementary or middle school music classroom! Chrome Music Lab Songmaker is free and easy to use!

Use this worksheet in your kindergarten classroom (or music classroom) to help students create their own rhyming verse for the Raffi song "Down By the Bay"!!! I used this worksheet with my kindergartners after singing the song together, reading the Raffi picture book, identifying "short" and "long" sounds in the song, and brainstorming other silly rhyming verses for "Down By the Bay." Each student colored a picture of their "own" verse, and I walked around the room writing the description in t

Quick worksheet to help student create their own ideas and rhymes to fit in the Louis Armstrong song "What a Wonderful World."

2 page PDF printable to help you plan your next elementary music concert! Start jotting down ideas to help you organize and plan your next performance!

This simple worksheet can be used with your young (K-2) elementary music students as you're learning the song "Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe..." "so so, mi mi, so so, mi..." In my classroom we sang the song with pitch syllables and hand signs, then with words, and then used this worksheet! The blanks can be used to label the shoes "so" and "mi" OR to practice writing the lyrics of the song. We also colored the shoes to match our colored glockenspiels so that it was easy for the students to s