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Sakura: Lesson plan and Orff arrangements for ukulele and percussion

By Orff Music Education

This is a beautiful Japanese folk song, which I have arranged for young children to sing and play. The translation is an amalgam of the research I was able to do without the help of a speaker of Japanese, but I hope it captures the spirit of the

Subjects:

Music, Vocal Music, Instrumental Music

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Songs, Lesson

$4.00

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In the Hall of the Mountain King Orff Arrangement

By Orff Music Education

This piece by Edvard Greig is always a favourite with children and will capture their imaginations and delight them. Here I have arranged it for Bass Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Alto Xylophone, Soprano Metallophone and Recorder, but you can make any

Subjects:

Music, Instrumental Music, Other (Music)

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities

$3.00

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Morning Mood Orff Arrangement

By Orff Music Education

This piece by Edvard Greig is always a crowd pleaser. Here I have arranged it for Bass Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Soprano Metallophone, Ukulele and Recorder, but you can make any substitutions and additions you fancy. The uke part is particularly

Subjects:

Music, Instrumental Music, Other (Music)

Grades:

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

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Activities

$3.00

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Sesere Eeye, traditional Torres Strait Islander song and dance lesson ideas

By Orff Music Education

Sesere Eeye is a song and dance from the Torres Strait Islands. Sesere is a kingfisher, but most of the words are not actually from the Torres Strait Islands, but from other Pacific Islander groups, and this song emerged after European contact which

Subjects:

Music, Instrumental Music, Dance

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Songs, Lesson

$3.00

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Elementary Music report comment generator and comment bank.

By Orff Music Education

Running out of different ways to say the same thing for every child in your school? I feel you.With this magic generator and comment bank you will receive:A magic spreadsheet that will compile your comments, inserting the correct name and pronouns

Subjects:

Music, Instrumental Music, Other (Music)

Grades:

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

Types:

Assessment, Professional Documents, Google Apps

$20.00

Online Resource
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Note Castle Episode (face-to-face or remote learning resource) US terminology

By Orff Music Education

Note Castle is a ten-week unit of work I developed for 5-7 year-olds to explore note values in an engaging way. It is designed to be used face-to-face or to be delivered online if needed. In this unit, I presume some prior knowledge of French time

Subjects:

Music, Music Composition, Instrumental Music

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Google Apps, Lesson

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Note Castle (face-to-face or remote learning resource) bundle UK terminology

By Orff Music Education

Subjects:

Music, Music Composition, Instrumental Music

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Google Apps, Lesson

$40.00

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Digital Interactive Music Theory Notebook level 2

By Orff Music Education

This digital interactive notebook is designed to accompany your music program for second grade, or whenever your program has covered the level 1 book. It covers minims/half notes, 2-4 meter, short rhythmic dictation using quarter notes, quarter

Subjects:

Music, Other (Music)

Grades:

2^nd

Types:

Activities, Google Apps

$10.00

Online Resource
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Winter Olympics Ice Hockey Song with classroom percussion Orff arrangement

By Orff Music Education

This is a an elemental arrangement for classroom percussion in A Lah pentatonic, themed for the Winter Olympics. Please forgive my complete lack of understanding of Ice Hockey. I am an Australian teacher, so to me Ice Hockey looks cool but

Subjects:

Music, Vocal Music, Instrumental Music

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Not Grade Specific

Types:

Activities, Songs

$3.00

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Note Values in Simple Time (including rests)

By Orff Music Education

This slideshow is the first in a series called "Understanding Time Signatures". It covers (using American terminology): What is simple time?Whole notes and restsDotted half notes and restsHalf notes and restsDotted quarter notes and restsQuarter

Subjects:

Music, Music Composition, Instrumental Music

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Google Apps, Lesson

$5.00

Online Resource
Google Slides™

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Advance Australia Fair national anthem lyrics slideshow

By Orff Music Education

An aesthetic slideshow of our national anthem, perfect for assemblies, two verses long and ending with a blank black slide. I hope this helps your students learn the words, and eases the pain of trying to teach it next time your colleagues notice

Subjects:

Music, Vocal Music, Australian History

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Songs, Google Apps

$4.00

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Winter Olympics 2018 Rondo for Speech, Body Percussion and Melodic Percussion

By Orff Music Education

In this download you will find: A speech and body percussion arrangement I composed using concepts and venue names from the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympics. Pages 3 & 4. A melodic percussion arrangement which uses exactly the same rhythms as the

Subjects:

Music, Instrumental Music, Other (Music)

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Songs

$4.00

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Digital Interactive Music Theory Notebook Level 4

By Orff Music Education

This digital interactive notebook is designed to accompany your music program for third grade, or whenever your program has covered the level 2 book. It covers: sixteenth notes (tikatika), ti tika and tika ti, single eighth notes and rests, basic

Subjects:

Music, Instrumental Music, Other (Music)

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Internet Activities, Google Apps

$10.00

Online Resource
Google Slides™

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Hey Now: beginner ukulele Orff song and lesson for improvising in the classroom

By Orff Music Education

I wrote this song as a tool for teaching improvisation using a class set of ukuleles. It is suitable for absolute beginners and uses only open strings, a bass xylophone and voices. It is in A lah pentatonic. The accompanying lesson plan covers the

Subjects:

Music, Instrumental Music, Other (Music)

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Songs, Lesson

$4.00

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Digital Interactive Music Theory Notebook Level 3

By Orff Music Education

This digital interactive notebook is designed to accompany your music program for third grade, or whenever your program has covered the level 2 book. It covers: 3-4 meter and bar line placement, 4 bar rhythmic dictation in 3-4 meter, meeting the

Subjects:

Music, Music Composition, Other (Music)

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps

$10.00

Online Resource
Google Slides™

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Digital Interactive Music Theory Notebook level 1

By Orff Music Education

This digital interactive notebook is designed to accompany your music program for first grade. It covers tempo vocabulary, dynamics vocabulary, phrase vocabulary, quarter notes, quarter rests and eighth notes (using ta, ti-ti and sa vocabulary),

Subjects:

Music, Music Composition, Other (Music)

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd

Types:

Worksheets, Activities

$10.00

Online Resource
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Advance Australia Fair Classroom Instrument Four Part Arrangement

By Orff Music Education

This is not an elemental Orff arrangement by any means, but it uses classroom percussion/ Orff instruments and has the potential to be used by any selection of C instruments you desire eg recorders or flutes. The range of this four-part piece is

Subjects:

Music, Instrumental Music

Grades:

5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Songs

$4.00

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Digital Interactive Music Theory Notebook Level 5

By Orff Music Education

This digital interactive notebook is designed to accompany your music program for third grade, or whenever your program has covered the level 2 book. It covers: introducing fa, introducing ti, key signatures of C, F and G major, dotted eighth note

Subjects:

Music, Music Composition, Other (Music)

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps

$10.00

Online Resource
Google Slides™

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Note Values in Compound Time Google Slides

By Orff Music Education

The latest addition to my "Understanding Time Signatures" series!This slideshow covers:What is compound time?Groupings in compound timeDotted half note and restDotted quarter note and restQuarter note and restEighth note and restAll shown in the

Subjects:

Music, Music Composition, Instrumental Music

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Google Apps, Lesson

$5.00

Online Resource
Google Slides™

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Garden Blues Differentiated Soprano Recorder Trio

By Orff Music Education

This is an original composition I created to give my students some extra practise on A, G, E and D. I teach soprano recorder to mixed-ability groups, and so needed some arrangements of songs with easy melodies but challenging accompaniments (with

Subjects:

Arts & Music, Music, Instrumental Music

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Activities, Songs

$3.00

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I am a specialist Music teacher from Launceston with over twenty years’ experience in teaching Music to young children. I also have experience in presenting teacher workshops at State and National conferences.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I am an Orff Schulwerk practitioner.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

I am currently the Vice President of the Tasmanian Orff Schulwerk Association Inc. after serving as President for some years and as a member of the Australian National Council of Orff Schulwerk.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

BEd (Sec) Mus from the University of Melbourne plus Levels 1-4 of the ANCOS courses in Creative Music and Movement Education.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I am also a mother of three children and an active member of my Church. I love folk dance and choral singing and enjoy writing instrumental and choral works as well as classroom songs and musicals for my school. I hope you enjoy them also.