Charley
Well-known member
Anyone else teaching ukulele in school? If so, I'd like to know more about you and what you're doing! Things like...
What grade levels?
Approximately how many students?
What state?
Do you have classroom ukuleles or do students provide their own?
Anything interesting you want to say about your program?
Here's me...
I'm the music teacher at a private K-8 school in Southern California. I introduced ukulele to our oldest students 3 years ago, loaning each of them one for the year and giving a weekly class on it.
Since then we've expanded down as low as 3rd grade. I keep a classroom set of Makala sopranos for younger grades, and we use them approximately 3-4 times a month (we have to also do other music stuff as well). Older students still get to borrow one for the year. We have about 20 Lanikai or Kala sopranos we loan out.
I teach using Ukukele Underground or Ukukele Mike videos; I'll go over the chords used in the song first, then they watch it again on video, and (hopefully) practice with that video at home during the week.
How about you guys??
What grade levels?
Approximately how many students?
What state?
Do you have classroom ukuleles or do students provide their own?
Anything interesting you want to say about your program?
Here's me...
I'm the music teacher at a private K-8 school in Southern California. I introduced ukulele to our oldest students 3 years ago, loaning each of them one for the year and giving a weekly class on it.
Since then we've expanded down as low as 3rd grade. I keep a classroom set of Makala sopranos for younger grades, and we use them approximately 3-4 times a month (we have to also do other music stuff as well). Older students still get to borrow one for the year. We have about 20 Lanikai or Kala sopranos we loan out.
I teach using Ukukele Underground or Ukukele Mike videos; I'll go over the chords used in the song first, then they watch it again on video, and (hopefully) practice with that video at home during the week.
How about you guys??