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Joan Eckroth-Riley and Wendy van Gent have prepared a fall lesson that beautifully combine the philosophies of Music Learning Theory and Orff-Inspired teaching.

As a part of our winter unit, Kindergartners learned a song about a snowman. The students really enjoyed using their imaginations and pretending to build their snowmen while we sang the song: Once they learned the song and practiced several times, they were very excited to add the Boomwhackers! Boomwhackers are colorful plastic tubes that are various lengths and pitches. I tell my students that they are called Boomwhackers because they make a "boom-ing" sound and you "whack" them on things…

Roger Sams shares tried and true picture books that enhance music and movement learning and create a playful environment in your classroom, be it socially distanced in person or remote. He models lessons that include singing, chanting, movement accompanied by piano, rhythmic activities, and basic music literacy. Distance Learning | Free Printable | Orff Activities | Orff Music Education | Elementary Music Teacher

Building Musicianship and More…In Every Learner Releasing creativity that extends far beyond the music classroom, Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman conceived an approach to building musicianship in every learner through the integration of music, movement, speech, and drama. A Teaching Model for Optimal Learning In Orff Schulwerk classrooms, children begin with what they do instinctively:... Read more »

Music is organized sound. I like to give students opportunities to organize sound and icons for sounds before we work with organizing notation. One of the ways I do that is to create sound songs. We take a basic grid and brainstorms sounds we can make with our bodies (APPROPRIATE sounds *giggle*) and then draw shapes and simple picture to represent them. We draw them into the grid so that they are organized and then perform them for each other. FUN! Another thing I like to do is work with…

#along #body #percussion #play #wellerman #rhythm #boomwhackers Teachers, you are invited to work with the wellerman and his cute companion to develop a numb...

Classical music to teach emotions, to be used alongside for imaginative movement, background to imaginative play or simply to listen to.