Feel like a fraud? What to do about those thoughts

If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “I can’t do this” or “I’m not expert enough at this” or “I don’t deserve to be doing this” and then proceeded to melt into a puddle of self-doubt …You’re not alone!  ‍Many music teachers question whether they are prepared to do the work they do. Here’s how to

2023-09-21T04:03:34+00:00By |0 Comments

How to teach Grade 1 Music Lessons

Teaching grade 1 music lessons? This article gives an overview of a typical grade 1 music lesson plan. Then it shows you how it can be implemented. Creating a lesson plan to teach grade 1 music lessons Creating a music lesson plan is difficult enough! Getting a lesson to fit curriculum requirements

2023-10-14T22:22:51+00:00By |0 Comments

Pineapple on Pizza?

Here at the Fun Music Company, we really value the interactions with our customers and clients. We’ve just put together a brand new ebook with a collection of nine of what we feel are “work every time” ideas for Music Education. These are tried and tested ideas which we’ve learned from the best in the

2023-02-28T08:54:17+00:00By |13 Comments

music composition lesson plan for grade one

Looking to create a music composition lesson plan for grade one, but don’t know where to start? Well read on ... Teaching composition when young children can barely read or play a note is hard! And most teachers aren’t trained in the area of composition and most teachers aren’t composers! So where do you start

2023-08-21T07:38:28+00:00By |0 Comments

The New Australian Curriculum (version 9) has been released. This is what it means for music teachers in Australia.

After a long delay which was extended due to COVID, The Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) have released the final version of the new Australian Curriculum. This represents the first major change in the Australian curriculum for Arts:Music, since the original version was released in 2014. You may be confused to see

2022-10-11T07:56:27+00:00By |0 Comments

What a curriculum asks us to do in creating a music listening curriculum is not actually that easy in practice!

Looking to create a music listening curriculum? That is something we do here, too! Here at the Fun Music Company we LOVE looking through curriculum documents, created by government departments and education authorities. I am only a little bit “tongue-in-cheek” as I write that! Seriously, we do actually enjoy it! Its a really interesting aspect

2023-09-23T07:01:27+00:00By |0 Comments

10 Funny Popular Music Jokes for any occasion

Do you need some quick one-liner music jokes? Here at the Fun Music Company we're dedicated to creating lots of tools for #FunMusicTeachers to create fun and exciting music lessons, and Music Jokes are a really key tool for teachers to use. So today we thought we'd share a few that are based around popular

2021-05-14T02:50:47+00:00By |0 Comments

The Australian Curriculum is changing – here is what is happening and how it affects music teachers.

  Just a few days ago, the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) released the Arts consultation curriculum, which is the proposed Australian Curriculum for the Arts, including music. The Australian Curriculum in its current form has been in place since 2015, so a process to review it began in 2020, which is a

2021-05-05T05:49:12+00:00By |3 Comments
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