Happy March and MIOSM, everyone! This year in particular seems to be an important Music In Our Schools Month, as it is the 30th Anniversary of celebrating music education in the schools across our country. Music In Our Schools Month is a music advocacy initiative supported by NAfME (the National Association for Music Education). To read more about the initiative and ways you can celebrate MIOSM in your school and community, visit NAfME’s MIOSM page here.
To celebrate MIOSM here at my school, Clark Creek Elementary STEM Academy in Cherokee County, Georgia, we created our own music advocacy posters to hang in the main hallway of our school. Here are some pictures of the installation:
I traced some large letters for “MIOSM” on butcher paper (TIP: If you’re not an all-star freehand letter drawer, no worries! Project a word document using a projector onto your board, covered with some butchers paper, and trace!! Perfect letters everytime!). Then I hand wrote the words “Music In Our Schools Month” on each letter, cut out, and laminated.
The student posters are a variety of colored pages from some templates I created:
- An acrostic with the letters MUSIC that students can add their own words for the 5 letters in the word “MUSIC” (adjectives, music terms, etc.)
- An acrostic with the letters MIOSM for the words “Music In Our Schools Month”
- A template that has this year’s MIOSM theme: “Music Makes Me __________” that students can design, color, and illustrate
- A template that says “I {heart} music because….” that students can design, color, and illustrate
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