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Aimee Pfitzner

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I am a wife, mom, and lover of all thibgs crafty and creative. When not writing music and creating reaources, i can be found musically musing on my blog, www.ofortunaorff.com. Phil. 4:13

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The Day the Crayons Quit original music performance program

By Aimee Pfitzner

Using the children's book, "The Day the Crayons Quit" (readily available at Amazon.com; not included), get a performance piece ready with your students! Seven original pieces are included with Orff instrument accompaniment that is readily

Subjects:

Music, Vocal Music, Literature

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Songs

$10.00

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Camp Songs - 19 Favorites!

By Aimee Pfitzner

This was so much fun to put together! Included in the pdf are 19 of my FAVORITE camp songs! At the end of every school year for the last month of school, my students request camp song favorites.These songs and games are perfect for any time during

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Music, Vocal Music, Other (Music)

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1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

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Activities, Songs

$15.00

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Compose Yourself Composition/Dice Game with Boomwhackers!

By Aimee Pfitzner

Great fun composition activity with colored dice set up in C pentatonic.. picture shows what the colored dice look like. The colored dice match Boomwhackers in C pentatonic- except blue which I've made a free choice letter! Foam dice available from

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Music, Music Composition, Instrumental Music

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3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Activities, Assessment, Games

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Pass the Pumpkin

By Aimee Pfitzner

Song and activity using unpitched percussion and barred instruments. This is a HUGE favorite !!! Song notation and instructions included as well as beat page (with pumpkins), rhythm from iconic to actual rhythmic notation with lyrics below

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Music, Vocal Music, Instrumental Music

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1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

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Activities, Assessment, Songs

$1.50

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Hula Hoop Activities for the Music Classroom

By Aimee Pfitzner

These games and activities are favorites in my classroom! Most activities are games that your students will have fun with while reinforcing concepts of rhythm (quarter, eighths, rests, half, and whole notes are included), improvisation with body

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Music, Vocal Music, Other (Music)

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Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Assessment, Songs, Games

$2.50

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Chinese New Year Song

By Aimee Pfitzner

Gong Xi Fa Cai! Happy Chinese New Year! Song and Orff instruments accompaniment with process for teaching. Gongs, cymbals, chimes, and temple blocks accompany song and Orff instruments. Fun song teaches how to speak numbers 1, 2, and 3 in

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Music, Vocal Music, Instrumental Music

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Songs, Cultural Activities

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Drum Rules/Drums Rule! Beginning of the Year Music Activity

By Aimee Pfitzner

Need a fresh new activity to get your year started out with active music making? Using quarter and eighth note rhythms, students will read four simple rules about being listeners, participants, following directions and being respectful. Once the

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Music, Instrumental Music

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

$2.00

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Great Big House in New Orleans PDF with teaching idea for Thanksgiving

By Aimee Pfitzner

PDF file includes traditional song (verse 1 only) with a spoken "B" section that students create using pie visuals (included). Pie visuals use quarter and eighth note rhythm "pie flavors".Teaching process included. PDF is easily tranferred to

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Music, Thanksgiving, Autumn

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Songs, Printables, Lesson

$2.00

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Music Math pdf

By Aimee Pfitzner

These 6 slides include 24 musical math problems. Perfect for a center, using quarter, eighth, half, dotted half and whole notes students solve traditional math problems using music notation to subtract and add the "beats". Create competitive

Subjects:

Basic Operations, Numbers, Music

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2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Flash Cards

$2.00

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Halloween Rhythm Dictation pdf

By Aimee Pfitzner

Quarter and Eighth Note and Quarter Rest patterns presented first with words only, next slide has the rhythm added. Students divide into small groups or partners and use heart chart printable included and small Halloween manipulatives (I used the

Subjects:

Music, Music Composition

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Assessment, Games

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Vocal Exploration to Notation

By Aimee Pfitzner

Use these vocal exploration slides as a digital or printable resource. For your youngest students, the curved and straight vocal pathways can be used as vocal or movement exploration, then as students grow, use the 2nd of each slide which presents

Subjects:

Music, Vocal Music, Other (Music)

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Activities, Assessment, Printables

$4.00

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Creepy Crawly Spiders Song, Printouts for Composition Powerpoint

By Aimee Pfitzner

Original song perfect for Halloween; no use of the word Halloween or "scary". The song is about creepy, crawly spiders, and how their bodies have 2 parts and their webs are works of art. Printouts are provided for students to create original

Subjects:

Music

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

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PowerPoint Presentations, Printables, Lesson

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Music Lesson for The Cow Loves Cookies book by Karma Wilson

By Aimee Pfitzner

Music activity and lesson ideas to use with the book, "The Cow Loves Cookies" by Karma Wilson. Great for application of quarter note and eighth notes. Includes notation and words of everything the animals eat in the book and activity ideas with

Subjects:

Music, Music Composition

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities, Lesson

$1.50

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Winter Snowflakes

By Aimee Pfitzner

Winter Snowflakes is a very accessible song with optional improvisation. Accompaniment is with Orff instruments and finger cymbals and shakers. Lovely to use in lieu of Christmas and/or Hannukkah music or in addition to a winter or snowy program.

Subjects:

Music, Instrumental Music, Other (Music)

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Songs, Lesson

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Busy Buzzy Bumblebee Music Lesson pdf

By Aimee Pfitzner

This 14 page pdf contains steady beat pages, and iconic (bee) to quarter and eighth note rhythm pages. This SLMRD song is also shown on the staff with bumblebees which demonstrates melodic direction, and also has a page with a contrasting B (get,

Subjects:

Vocal Music

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Songs

$2.00

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Winter Vocal Exploration PDF

By Aimee Pfitzner

Winter blues got you down? Try these vocal exploration cards featuring snowflakes and a snowgirl and a penguin! Soft, wintry colors in pale blue, gray, off-white, and pale pink have a variety of vocal exploration cards for your students. Eleven

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Music

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

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Printables

$1.00

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Bucket Drum Routine to Trepak from the Nutcracker

By Aimee Pfitzner

Music activity using drums and/or unpitched percussion instruments to accompany Trepak from the Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky. Bucket Drum to Trepak from the Nutcracker is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0

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Music

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

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Activities, Lesson

$1.50

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Pumpkin, Pumpkin

By Aimee Pfitzner

This traditional holiday song, "Pumpkin, pumpkin, round and fat.. " is presented two ways; one with quarter and eighth notes and another with sixteenths for older students. The A Section with song is completely scored, including body percussion for

Subjects:

Music, Music Composition, Vocal Music

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Songs

$1.25

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Halloween Rhythm Music Dictation with sixteenth notes!

By Aimee Pfitzner

Halloween rhythm dictation slides include quarter, eighth notes, quarter rest, sixteenth notes, and sixteenth eighth patterns. Halloween themes here begin with a word slide which teacher speaks, students write rhythms on whiteboards or use other

Subjects:

Music

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

$2.50

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Fall Rhythms

By Aimee Pfitzner

Create rhythms with your youngest students in a way they will understand! Using images of pumpkins (eighth notes), apples (eighth notes), and acorns (eighth notes), and owls and leaves (quarter notes) students can create two 4-beat rhythms on the

Subjects:

Music

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st

Types:

Activities, Assessment

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I teach using the Orff Approach and have a Master's Level Certification in Orff Schulwerk and a Master's Degree in Music Education. I blog at http://ofortunaorff.blogspot.com and have six published books available feom Beatin Path Publications at www.singsmileplay.com. I present music teacher workshops at international, national, state, and local conferences and workshops and am always excited to share music with friends new and old.

MY TEACHING STYLE

Music- Orff Based Approach and Practice

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

MM in Music Education, University North Carolina Greensboro BM in Music Education, University of Maine, Orono. Master's Level Certification in Orff Schulwerk, University of Memphis

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Math, Basic Operations, Numbers, Arts & Music, Visual Arts, Music, Music Composition, Vocal Music, Instrumental Music, Other (Performing Arts), Literature, Holidays/Seasonal, Thanksgiving, Poetry, Autumn