GentryandPitts

09/05/2019

Have you started to pre-teach your stations? Beginning of the year is a great time to play stations in a whole class setting while reviewing major concepts.

06/28/2019

If your like me, summer time can be just as busy as school time! However, beginning the school year with a clean and organized elem music sub tub is so worth the time!
Try carving out an hour to go through your activities to re-organize, replace missing items, use fresh zip lock bags, and wipe clean any dry erase sheets (Clorox wipes or a Mr. Clean eraser work really well for this). It doesn’t take long and the pay off it so worth it! Your kiddos will appreciate starting fresh too!
With everything ready to go, you can plan to use stations at the beginning of the year as review activities.

02/09/2019

To all of our Texas teacher friends Happy TMEA week! This is a great week to utilize your materials from the Elementary Music Sub tub so students can continue making music even when your not in the room. Let’s encourage independent musicianship!

07/26/2018

School is coming quickly! Are you preparing for the upcoming year? Now is a great time to prep stations and think about how to pre-teach with purpose in your beginning of the year lessons. Here’s to a fresh start and a great year!

04/01/2018

Today is the LAST DAY to purchase the digital file for our newest center, “Sing, Sing, Sink.” It is a melody focused center that we debuted at TMEA. We hope to have it available as a hard copy in the future, but for now we are tucking it away for workshop use.

If you want to add this center to your Sub Tub, you have until midnight tonight. 😊

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03/25/2018

ONE MORE WEEK!

Our newest center “Sing, Sing, Sink” will only be available for digital download through April 1st! Do not miss this melody centered activity!

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03/15/2018

Can you believe it has been a month since TMEA 2018!!!

Just a reminder that our newest center “Sing, Sing, Sink” will only be available for digital download through April 1st! Do not miss this melody centered activity!
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02/17/2018

We had so much fun with some amazing elementary music teachers! Remember if you would like the NEW melodic center we used today, you have a limited time to purchase it. We will have it available from now until April! You can purchase the electronic docs for $7.50 at

GentryandPitts is a business started by two elementary music teachers who seek to develop unique learning activities and techniques. In 2013 Kayla and Erin began development center based music activities that can be left as substitute activities when educators are out of the classroom. The goal was....

02/17/2018

TMEA day!!!! We cannot wait to see you all at 12:30!! We are going to create, improv with technology, and maybe even go fishin’!

01/19/2018

We are so excited to have the opportunity to present at TMEA this year! Our Sub Tub 2.0 session is on Saturday at noon. We hope to see you there!!!

08/17/2017

Back to school, here we go! The first week of school is a perfect time for utilizing a center as a review of the previous years concepts. This also refreshes the students on expectations and how to play when a sub is in your room.

07/14/2017

Great article!!! Is your room working for you or against you?

This spring I gave a talk at the Mountain Lake Symposium on the topic of classroom design. I thought I’d share a few practical ideas from that talk here, especially for music teachers who are…