I move to elementary school in the morning.
I am going to like getting to go half an hour later than usual. Im going to miss being able to leave earlier in the afternoon and having a shorter school day with not nearly as much after school duty.

I'm not going miss the lack of consistency with seeing different kids every day.

I'm not going to like some of the potty help kids that age need, the shrill timbre of their voices or attention span of a goldfish, the wet dog smell...

December. This is over till December...I can make it till then, especially since we decided thanksgiving we are not having a big meal, and not with family....it's sandwiches and shooting. I can make it through this!

Miss you guys!

Anybody remember elementary music? What did you like? what didn't you like?

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Soli Deo Gloria

All I remember is "There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza". The song that never ends.
Thanks, by the way for making me think of it again after all these years. Now it's gonna be in my head the rest of the night.
Jim

All my elementary music was donated long ago. Plus, music for me was a little different than it was for the other kids - in elementary school mom had me learning classical piano. Czerny and Haydn.

But what I will do, is send my sister-in-law an email and see what she may have. She handles the under-12 girls at girl's camp so she must still have some idea what's what in that regard.

I'm assuming you are talking about singing, right? Not anything that requires an instrument to be played? There's always the "Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream" standby, which can be done as a round for up to four groups. I'm not sure you can get away with "Michael row the boat ashore" because some parent will have a fit about the word "alleluia" having a religious connotation.

I figure 99 bottles of beer is out...

You can Do this! Just keep a calendar nearby. Good luck, TACC1.

Lamb chops play-Along - YouTube

So from your post I am assuming you are a teacher.

If so, I do offer you praise, as I know how difficult, and how much an important job it is.

I will be curious to hear what you thing about teaching elementary school kids vs what you taught before. Were you teaching JR High, grades 7 to 9th or High School grades 10 through 12???

Public school or Private?

I was very lucky from the first grade through College, I had some VERY GOOD teachers. I hold teachers in the Highest Regard.

They [You] mold the future of America... No matter what subject you teach.

elementary school teacher?

shooting w/out proper protection rendered my ears pretty much useless trying to hear what the little people say, regardless of my hearing aids.

i admire your patience.
there should be a special place in heaven for teachers like yourself.

My crazy sister, who taught in the elementary schools in St. Louis for 35 years, had special rules;

1) Show no fear

2) Don't make eye contact

Seriously though, Have fun. Some of them will stay with you foreever. Several times, she had third generation kids in her class.

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I spent 7 years as a Cubmaster with my two sons. Some of our best memories both together and as a group were with those kids and their families. That's a great age to interact with kids in a controlled environment and a wonderful opportunity to help them develop the character that they'll need later on. Enjoy it!

Just remember those two fan favorites

Wheels on the Bus

Little Bunny foo foo

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When they're little, people don't believe them as much when they say "Teacher hit me".

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Elementary School music:
1. My Country Tis Of Thee
2. God Bless America
3. Home On The Range
4. She Will Be Coming Around The Mountain
5. Red River Valley

Also we had The "Lord's Prayer" and "Pledge Allegiance To The Flag" at the beginning of the school day.

That sure ain't gonna happen nowadays... at least not in a public school.

Just like the principal isn't going to have a "board of education" hanging on his office wall. Back then you knew whatever punishment you got at school wasn't near as bad as what you'd get after you got home.

My music teacher kept a large bottle of gin handy to help him pass the time. I also remember elementary children smelling like ruined milk instead of wet dogs.

elementary school music was taught to us, with the beat of the hickory stick, by the "good sisters"

I do not believe we had much in the way of music at our school. So, while I did not learn to appreciate music, I did learn some very good limericks! There once was a man from Nantucket.....oh yeah, elementary kids. Well....er...nevermind.

I can still play "Mary had a Little Lamb" on a recorder. And I remember that our "music teacher" directed by flicking her fingers, not with a baton.

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All I remember about Grade School was 5th grade. On Fridays we listened to Simon and Garfunkel records and lifted the needle off the record player after each stanza, and talked about what the meaning was supposed to be or what it meant to us.

Oh, and there was the 6 foot tall paper mache'(sp) dragon we made out of chicken wire! That came out of the song Puff the Magic Dragon who lived by a sea somewhere...The Dragon was hot pink and purple in color, with lime green and yellow poka dots all over it.

Did I just say that out loud?

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Are you sure it wasn't those colors only because you were "puffing" something??

I was ten or eleven!

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RIP Shipmate

See? You can't even remember how old you were. Memory loss is a symptom...

Now, back to the subject matter at hand....

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I was just wondering if you remembered any weird, crazy, or excellent teachers.

Today was OK. I miss my jr high band kids. Right now I'm at a public school placement. before this I worked with 5+ grade bands in private schools and have taught private woodwinds for a very, very long time.

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I suggest staying with the classics.
Green River
Magic Carpet Ride
Stairway to Heaven
Heard It Through The Grapevine.

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Pink Floyd's "Brick in the Wall". Always appropriate for children. ;-)

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Or "RUN"

DUH! I just got the "Brick in the Wall" ref

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Gee, elementary grades run from Kindergarten to 6th. Could be a wide variety among them. Maybe you'll luck out and get 5th or 6th grade and some of them will actually want to learn something.

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Congratulations! My wife taught for 36 years. I don't understand your remark about "potty" help. Where I live, you can't start school if you can't go to the bathroom by yourself. That is. unless you are a special ed teacher, or teaching handicapped kids. Then, that's a different matter altogether.

The potty remark is about parents who do not dress their kids in things they can undo or button without help. Kindergarten is the worst for this.

Elementary music doesn't assign you one grade. You get all the kids in the school in a rotation; or in this case, half, which is roughly 600. You don't see the same kids every day.

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I'm probably the wrong guy to ask. When my wife was singing the kids standard lullabies at night, I was teaching my two year old "Margaritaville."

Yaktamer: My father was teaching me soldier songs from WW I. I remember part of one that went :
"Oh, we'll get Bill the Kaiser,
And a bottle of Budwiser
And we'll go through the Hindenburg Line".

And another one:
"The Infantry, the Infantry, with the dirt behind their ears.
The Infantry, the Infantry that laps up all the beers,
The Cavalry, the Artillery and the blooming Engineers
Oh, they'll never lick the Infantry in a hundred thousand years".

Second thoughts: I think I've hijacked this thread. My apologies, Captorquewrench.

when my oldest was about 4, and greeting a visitor at church, she yelled at them "My name is SUE how do you DO" we got to her before the rest was finished...

Two days in. Counting down till december.

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