Music Stations in LS Music
I worked on my own as follows:
Spent most of the morning reading articles I had collected over the course of the year about how, when, why, to use stations for music learning and what is most useful. I had 5 different docs with collections of ideas and went through to delete repeated information, stuff I wouldn't use, etc. I condensed these into one doc. Here are links to articles I studied and the doc I put together:
From these articles, I realized that I need to get budget permission before I can buy any of the music station packets/booklets, etc., that are on TPT, MPO, etc. Next Steps: Look further through these resources and decide what I want to get for this coming year
Next, I started going through the middle shelves in my room to see what materials for stations I might already have - and I found a LOT of STUFF that needs developing - ie., Instruction sheets, materials made, an idea to go with the physical materials I collected (beads of different sizes, shapes, colors; heart booklets, plastic heart-shaped bracelets, stuff I see at Target that I think, "I could come up with something for these!" but then don't end up following through on.... all this kind of "Stuff" is piled in a variety of boxes on shelves behind the sliding whiteboards)
So, now "STUFF" is all over my floor and I am overwhelmed and thinking, "This is why I don't follow up on these" - so I decided to pursue ONE thing and get it to completion/readiness for use - and the result is "Monster Meter Mash" - to use with 2nd grade up.
NEXT STEPS:
Inventory what I already have
Figure out quickest way to make directions, etc.
Decide a list of pre-made stations that I can buy to save myself some time
Go through my curriculum for year and figure out where /when I want to add stations activities (and what will get dropped to make time)
Get rid of "STUFF" I am not going to move forward with and reorg shelves
Ask teachers online how they organize/store their station materials - it all takes up a lot of room!
Can someone help me get all this "STUFF" off y floor and back into the cabinet! Yikes! 😂
I really enjoyed that you attached the articles you were able to have time to read and the photo helps me visualize the monster mash - fun! The way you organized this reflection to end with 'next steps' is so great and I'm happy to come help purge, organize, and stash stuff any time:)!