I am finishing up my school year as a multi-arts teacher teaching music, drama, and dance.

This year I did some pretty amazing things. I started the year off and instituted some new routines for the students including singing routines, dancing routines, musical instrument playing routines, and most importantly, relaxation routines.

I put on a winter concert in which every student in kindergarten through 5th grade performed. The kindergarteners sang a song which I wrote entitled “penguins in the moonlight” while they wore construction paper penguin hats. Three older classes performed on the recorder and even though they had only had 5 weeks of practice, they played the very challenging piece “tis a gift to be simple.”

I have started developing a way to teach acting. I have grown as a director and I am starting to see students take risks to show emotion on stage in front of their peers. While this sounds simple, it is a monument to the trust I have built in my classroom and among the students here.

I put on a spring dance extravaganza in which every student danced a folk dance with their class. Cooperation and treating each other with respect were the keys to this successful dance. I am also proud to say that I put together a parent band that performed five tunes. Oh, and my after school guitar class played guitar for the kindergarten dance “heel and toe.”

Besides teaching guitar after school, I taught puppetry, architecture and story writing as after school programs.