Music at Timber Drive
Elementary School

My name is Beth Palmieri and I am the music teacher at Timber Drive Elementary School. As an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I majored in percussion performance and I am very excited about using my knowledge of percussion instruments to teach Timber Drive students about music.

In graduate school, I studied Orff-Schulwerk and find this process to be a wonderful way to teach music to children. Carl Orff was a German composer whose interest in education led to his process of teaching music to children called Orff-Schulwerk. Orff-Schulwerk is based on the idea of learning music by hearing and making music first, then transferring that knowledge to reading and writing music later. The process uses familiar folk-like melodies and percussion instruments to help students learn music by actively creating it.

for more information about Orff-Schulwerk, click here: www.aosa.org

Take a look at what Timber Drive students will be doing in music for the year by clicking here

Fourth Grade students and parents, click here to learn more about our trip to see and hear the North Carolina Symphony perform!!

Fifth Graders have the opportunity to be a member of the Timber Singers!

Click here to see about the grading policy for music class.

contact me at epalmieri@wcpss.net if you have any questions