Mrs. Q's Resources: Word Wall Pack and Giveaway

I can't believe July has come and past.  This summer seems to be flying by!

This past week I came out of my vacation fog to focus a bit on school but in a fun way!  I'm at peace when I'm creating, so I've been sitting in front of the computer creating in Photoshop and I hope you will love what I've done.

Over the past year many of you have asked about word cards to accompany the word wall toppers I use in my classroom.  Unfortunately, those old files got lost somewhere along the way.  But not to worry, I have created a whole set of color coded word wall cards and musical elements toppers.  

My Word Wall Pack will be for sale starting this Friday, August 9th.  If this sounds like a product you would LOVE to have for your classroom, you may be interested to know that I will be giving away 1 Free Word Wall Pack and 10- 50% off coupons to followers of Mrs. Q's Music Blog.  

How do you enter?  Well many of you already are.   To be entered in the Giveaway you must follow Mrs. Q's Music Blog by email or Google.  I will use random.org to pick the winners and they will be announced this Friday.  Good luck!

Freebie - Word Wall Toppers

I have been meaning to add my Word Wall Toppers to my Freebie section but for one reason or another forgot.  You can still right click and save them from this summers post but I have made it easier by saving all of the toppers in one pdf that you can request in the Freebie section.

Word Wall Freebies

These are the signs that I use for my word wall toppers.  Please feel free to use them for your own classroom!

Word Wall

Every year I like to add a new display somewhere in my classroom for students to reference during lessons.  One of my most successful displays is my word wall.  It's not 100% complete yet but it is something the kids use more and more frequently to find a word to describe what they are hearing in the music.  Like I said this is not complete but every time we learn a new word it is easy enough to print that word and add it to the wall.  I think I might redo some words to add a picture because this seems to really help kids make connections to the musical meaning.  

Since the words are not permanently affixed to a surface, I can move them during my lessons.  For example, during a lesson on forte and piano, I will hold those two words up at the appropriate time in the music.  I may also have a student point to the dynamic they want students to use during a performance of a piece.

The elements of music toppers were easy enough to make in word and I printed them on legal paper and then backed them with colored construction paper.  After laminating, I attached the toppers to the cabinets with sticky tack.  I found these pocket charts at Target during back to school.  They usually have different colors and they seem to have them from year to year.  I attached the pocket charts with velcro strips so that I could put them away for the summer and easily reattach the following year.