The Wisdom of Quotes..

So my room is pretty bland...white walls, white boards, I have one bulletin board.  I find it crazy to have a completely boring room when you are asking your students to be creative!

I had my Middle School and High School students come up with their favorite music quotes, we got some cardboard (just being thrifty) and wrote our quotes in pencil then in permanent marker.
They got creative with bubble letters and adding music notes to them!

One of my favorite music quotes when on the big one "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything" Plato

I'm hoping that through these quotes being up everyday that my students can be inspired and create even more of a passion for playing music.

Hi!
My name is Lauren, I'm a band director in the Cincinnati, OH area.  I am beginning this blogging journey for my benefit, as well as (hopefully) yours!

Let me first start by saying..........I am a pinterest junky. There I said it!

I've recently been in a slump looking for creative ideas and just good ideas to use in the beginning, middle, and high school band classroom.  So where do I start to look? PINTEREST duh!
Unfortunately, all I could find were these adorable blogs for elementary school music, idea after idea of the most adorable lesson plans and crafts for the elementary school music room.

While I thoroughly enjoyed reading all of these, it didn't give me much help for my older kids....they would revolt if I had them do something like "dice rhythms" or put a "rhythm tree" on my bulletin board.

So I thought...while I'm not the most qualified or experienced person to be giving advice about how to run a band, but I know my stuff and I'm defiantly creative sooooo......

This blog will be a place for Band classroom ideas, music advocacy, and more :)

(Please let me know if you have any ideas or thoughts you would like to share!!)