I really enjoy music class in elementary school. I learned many helpful lessons that are now useful with teaching my dance classes. I remember clapping the rhythm of the music by saying ta ta tee tee ta. I also remember our music teacher and the gym teacher putting together square dancing every year and they never forgot to include The Hokey Pokey. We also had to purchase a recorder to learn how to play it. How many of us still remember Hot Cross Buns?

The only lesson that I did not like is when we had to sing in front of the music teacher. I don't remember if we had to do this one at a time or in groups of three but I was so very nervous. The 1st time we had to do this I ended up not doing it because I was in tears. A year and a half later we had to do it again. I did it trying not to look at the music teacher because I am soooooo nervous but the music teacher as she is playing her keyboard finds where I am looking and starts looking at me. She was a excellent music teacher but this lesson made me nervous. My very soon to be husband thinks I sing great but I am not sure because I have never heard any comments good and or bad from any of the music teachers I had.

Any way let's share our elementary school music class memories.

i hated music class cause my teacher was a jerk and we had to sing a bunch of back to school songs and other weird songs. but the one cool thing was when we got to make an instrument and I made a guitar out of a tissue box , a paper towel roll, and some rubber bands.

[FONT=Impact]i remember we used to always ask the music teacher to play chris cross [/FONT]

wow... ur music class sounds like it was great.

all i remember from mine is having to sing, "this land is your land, this land is my land," until i wanted to pass out.

sadly i never did, so i had to keep singing.

My elementary school music class was a big joke and, for the most part, I hated it for the following reasons:

- we were forced to sing religious songs (Catholic school) while the music teacher played some crappy generic tune. It takes very little talent to strum a guitar with no change whatsoever in the rhythm. We also got to play with the 'kid' instruments like wooden blocks and sticks.

- music class was mandatory until the third or fourth grade.

- being part of the Christmas, spring, and Irish concerts was mandatory until fourth grade, whether or not you could sing. The Irish dancing was a joke and made a complete mockery of real dancing (don't expect pro dancing from seven-year-olds, but geez leave the damn dancing out - it sucked). And all the song themes were gag-worthy - one was about dieting, one was about reading books, Sargent Nancy Clancy, some stupid thing about Irish stew, and some really goofy chant to the tune of the wedding march. Makes me cringe just thinking about it.

- every damn year, a play was put on by the upper classmen...and it was always either The Sound of Music or Oliver Twist. And every single year until she graduated, one particular girl was chosen for the lead roll in the Sound of Music because of her voice.

I remember that we always put on plays that I never got an actual part in. Only a few kids did and the rest of us schmucks had to stand on the risers and sing stupid songs. Though I do remember feeling good about myself because I always learned all the songs faster than anyone else.

Anyway, I actually liked music class a lot. Way better than PE, anyway. I just hated those plays.

We had hard covered music books, and the teacher would play the accompanying scratchy crackly record. We sang "Love is something, if you give it away, give it away, give it away, you'll end up having more" and some really weird songs, like "Come and get your Baked Potato" The yodeling song "yodlakee kee yodela koo koo..." and "Peanut Peanut Butter- and JELLY!"

It wasn't half bad.

haha yeah i remember playing "Hot Cross Buns" on the recorder:


'Hot Cross Buns, hot Cross buns, one a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns1"

i guess im unique in that my elementary school music teacher is my next door neighbor (and my high school shop teacher is my newly behind-the-house neighbor)

i remember playing that game where you all sat in chairs in a circle and hid a dog bone under your chair and people had to guess who had the bone

and every year for st. pattys day theyd put fake leprechaun footprints going from class to class to add to the magic

or watching a crappily- drawn "Night on Bald Mountain" filmstrip

I remember playing the recorder. A lot. It was fun though.

Yes, I played the recorder, and I remember "Hot Cross Buns."

We also did the leprechaun thing. In first grade, I was so scared that day I peed myself in front of everyone... and I was wearing a skirt.

I remember that we too had to get recorders and learn to play them. I grew up in a small town outside Charlotte NC back in the 80's and we did something that looking back at it was really pretty cool. We would have these nights were we would get all dressed up in costumes and sing to older classic songs. Every grade would participate in some fashion. We would do themed nights like Halloween where we would run around the gym singing and dancing to the the Monster Mash and other theme songs of the like in routines. Or on another occasion we did summer related performance I remember doing a routine to "Little Old Lady from Passadena" and another Beach Boys song. I had a good time. It's ashame that schools are some freaking lame in the internet age.

We had to sing "Peanut, Peanut Butter and JELLY!" too. I so remember the choregraphic moves to that song that our elementary school music teacher taught us.

we HAD to buy a recorder,I did but I just launched spitballs with it hehehe.
My teacher had a lazy eye:D

My music classes sucked. Sure, when I was little I liked them, but as I got older they got bad. We always had to sing church songs (I went to a Catholic school), and when we were older if we didn't sing the teacher would freak out at us. We also had musicals, kindergarten through fourth grade had the Christmas one, fifth through eighth the spring one. Oh. My God. The spring musicals were SO corny, the songs were the worst ever. I remember one year, the refrain to one of the songs was: HARMONIC CONVERGANCE, TODAY! HARMONIC CONVERGANCE, LOVE IS THE WAY! HARMONIC CONVERGANCE, FAR OUT! HARMONIC CONVERGANCE IS WHAT IT'S ABOUT! Yeah. I felt like such an IDIOT standing up on the risers singing that sh*t. I always wanted to skip going on opening night but my parents always made me go. Ugh.

Watching Fantasia, singing We Are the World, and playing the recorder :)

We had to sing We Are The World for our 5th grade graduation.

well of course i remember the recorder. damn near killed some kid with one. i remember he was saying something about me not being able to play cuz of my cleft lip (despite the fact that my lip had been surgically resected when i was a baby, but i still have a scar). i hauled off and brought it screaming across the top of his head. little bastich never made fun of my lip again. and no i didnt kill or seriously injure him. the recorder was f#cked though.

[FONT=Impact]LMAO i used to HATE singin that song[/FONT]:D

I used to have to sing all that stuff like This Land is Your Land too but there were also some fun times. My grade three music teacher let us mess around with percussion instruments for the last few minutes of each class and did a music appreciation unit where she played Jeff Wayne's rock music adaptation of War of the Worlds featuring members of the Moody Blues and Thin Lizzy.

I went to Catholic school, so we did have to sing Christmas carols and songs like "Let There Be Peace On Earth" and "This Is The Day." I also remember the music teacher had these weird albums with what sounded like a boy's choir singing weird, dippy children's songs, like "The Ghost of John," "Marching To Pretoria", "Mitchie Banjo" (I think that was how it was spelled) and a squeaky-clean version of Three Dog Night's "Joy To The World". All I remember is that there was a big treble clef on the album covers, and the different albums had different colored covers.