Music Time

Music time is a very exciting part of the day for some of my students. While the older ones are out doing vocational training, the ones in the class get the pleasure of a fun filled 45 minutes of music and laughs.

Above is a picture of our music board. It's basically just a large, lightweight picture frame I picked up at Fred Meyer. Under the frame I placed 4 different colors of paper. On top of the plastic front is Velcro with picture icons (yes, they are hand drawn). Each color in the background corresponds to a different CD, containing that specific series of songs.

In case you're wondering how I keep track of which songs go to which CD's without looking each time, I write the song number on the back of the icon in that specific color. For instance, the icon for Five Little Monkeys has 31 (written in pink), so I know it goes to the pink CD.

This may seem like an overly complicated system, but when we are working on colors, I can put in the green CD and say to a student, "pick from the green section". This also allows me to have hundreds of songs to choose from, because I have 4 CD's worth of music. I have extra icons Velcroed on the back and can rotate them out at any time.