Choir Sub Plans Made Fun! 🎵⭐
Why Sub Plans Matter
If you are like me, you save up your sick and personal days until the end of the school year, “just in case something comes up”. Teachers go to work when sick because it’s simply easier to work through the day feeling ill rather than actually write sub plans. Add a national teacher substitute shortage on top of everything else and you see why teachers choose to just go to school when ill.
When I talk with newer teachers, I ALWAYS tell them to take those sick days. Schedule out a fun personal day. Not taking advantage of these days adds to teacher burnout. Do yourself a favor and schedule your next day off ASAP!
In my school district, a music endorsed substitute doesn’t exist. It might not even exist in our entire county. As a result, I’ve found myself creating resources that ANYONE can give out. I used to give students music theory worksheets, but the truth is that the students HATE these and the substitutes cannot provide help, even with an answer key.
So that is how the “3 Days of Choir Sub Plans” lesson series was born. It was important to me that these worksheets/activities are NO PREP and easy to hand out. Did I mention that I want them to be fun for the students? I wanted to tap into the creativity of our music students and keep them engaged for the full class period. Because we all know what can happen if the students are bored, am I right?
🎵 3 Days of Choir Sub Plans- Part 1
"Choir Trip Director": Let students plan a virtual choir tour, making exciting itinerary decisions for the group.
"Design a New Musical": Encourage students to create and name their own original Broadway-style musical.
"Design a New Choir": Students can take charge and decide on a choir name, repertoire, and concert attire for their virtual ensemble.
🎤 3 Days of Choir Sub Plans- Part 2
"Design Your Life's Album Cover": Students reflect on personal songs and design an album cover.
"Mindful Music Doodle": Offer students a relaxing activity with music and coloring. Perfect for after state testing days or when students (and you) need a mental break.
"What Should Your Teacher Listen To?"- A fun worksheet that asks students to give YOU song/musician recommendations and even guess what you like to listen to! Get ready for some surprising answers!
🎶 3 Days of Choir Sub Plans- Part 3:
With our "Writing a Concert Etiquette Speech" lesson, students will review a list of common concert etiquette "rules" and determine which are most important to them, then through a series of prompts, develop their own Concert Etiquette Speech. Make it a competition for the winning speech or even allow students to read and vote on the best speech for an upcoming concert!
Our "Design a Music Concert Poster" lesson offers students the opportunity to design a poster to help advertise an upcoming performance and can be used as a competition or even posted around the school to get the word out!
Lastly, "Writing Concert Program Notes" lesson, students will choose one of their current concert selections, answer repertoire prompts, and put it all together in a short note for the program.
✨ 3 Days of Choir Sub Plans- Part 4
My Life's Song Scavenger Hunt- Students reminisce and share songs from significant moments in their lives.
Design a Choir T-Shirt- Students will design a Choir T-shirt by choosing colors, quotes, designs and much more! Make it a class competition to add a little fun!
12 Musical Doodle Challenges- With 12 worksheets to choose from, your students will have a blast creating pictures out of musical symbols based on the given prompts.
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Alleviate the stress of substitute planning with these innovative and fun choir sub plans. Take advantage of your well-deserved days off because your well-being matters to your students, too!
Happy Singing! 🎤🎵
