meyersmusic: Ideas for the Music Classroom

The purpose of this blog is to share fun and creative activities, games, visuals, and manipulatives for use in an elementary music classroom. I hope you find something useful to your teaching. Enjoy!

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Folk Song Research, Anyone?

I'm a geek. I'm on mid-winter break and perusing folk song websites just because I find it fascinating. So this post is quite the ju...

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Valentine's Activities, Anyone?

Valentine's Day is almost upon us again, so I decided to post some activities I've done this week and last week that could be used f...

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Music, Movement, and Herding Cats...

In about a week I will be celebrating the one year anniversary of moving from Arizona to Long Island, NY. I spent the past year as a K-2 ...

Sunday, April 1, 2012

On your mark, get set, GO!

Lines and Spaces Relay Races is a favorite game for my students which uses the large floor staves mentioned in the previous post, and is ano...

Monday, February 27, 2012

Lines and Spaces practice...on the cheap Like my previous post, here are a few more ideas that are great practice activities but that ...

Monday, February 20, 2012

I'm BAAAAAACCCKKKK!!!!

First, I apologize profusely for my long absence in posting to this blog. I have been amazed that it continues to get views despite my long ...

Friday, January 7, 2011

This elementary choral arrangement's for you, Irene!

One of our Kodály summer course students, Irene, requested my arrangement of the folk song, "I Don't Care If the Rain Comes Down,...

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About Me

meyersmusic: Liza Meyers has taught preschool music classes, elementary music, choir, and undergrad and graduate music education courses during her 19 years as a teacher (OH, AZ, NY). Liza is Kodály and Orff certified and studied at the International Kodály Seminar in Kecskemet, Hungary in 2003. She has been instructor for graduate Kodály certification courses (AZ, KY, AL, AR) for 12 years and taught undergrad World Music classes in NY and OH and received a Japan Fulbright Memorial Scholarship in 2006. Liza is a doctoral candidate in music education from Arizona State University. She has extensive experience presenting workshops for in-service and pre-service music teachers and has held many leadership positions in state, regional, and national professional organizations, such as Western Division President for the Organization of American Kodály Educators (OAKE), as national program chair for the OAKE national conference in 2012, and currently as a member of the Teacher Education Committee for OAKE. Liza, an Ohio native, has recently returned to the state with her husband Brian, a music education professor at Miami University in OH. They live with their goofy Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Louie.

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