Grades 3-6. Globe-spanning folk songs are presented both in English and their original language, with dances and games provided. Orff process steps are also provided. Your students will be singing and dancing in no time!

Sing 'Round the World: International Folksongs, Vol. 1

Children's Books

Shirley W. McRae

Arts, Music & Photography

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Yours, Truly! Creative Choices for Orff Classes

Saliba, Konnie

Contents: Chicken Little - Three Billy Goats Gruff - How the Camel Got His Hump - The Boy Who Cried Wolf - The Fox Who Lost His Dinner - The Gingerbread Boy - The Old Woman and Her Pig. Each story includes cued instrumental sounds related to characters' names and actions as the story is told. A short folk-style tune is sung after each story segment. Option: Templates provided for making stick or paper plate puppets to portray the characters as the story is read. Grades 1-3 recommended.

Once Upon a Folk Tale - Eight Classic Stories by Linda Rockwell High, Carol Lee Kindt (1994) Paperback

Linda Rockwell High

Carol Lee Kindt

This is the classic soprano recorder method book for both a college level music methods course using an Orff Schulwerk methodology and also a step-by-step guide for teaching the recorder within an Orff primary grade classroom. After Chapter 1, one pitch per chapter is added. Clear process, warm-ups, teaching visuals and carefully selected folk, traditional and composed music guarantee successful performance technique and musical literacy.

Recorder Routes I - A Guide to Introducing Soprano Recorder in Orff Classes

Carol King

Thirty-two short, up-beat songs, speech or instrument ostinatos, games and movement to brighten each day. Easy for all gr. 1-3 classes. Guitar chords provided but no accompaniment needed. Body percussion (claps, slaps, stomps, snaps) suggestions help liven thing up.

Good Morning Songs and Wake Up Games

All Grades - This collection of twelve body percussion rondos for rhythmic study progresses from easy to challenging in difficulty and is delightful for students and teachers! Even the easy pieces are musical and fun because of the skillfully written rhythmic combinations.

The Body Rondo Book

Solomon, Jim

The first in a series of recorder ensemble collections based on world folk music. Eleven arrangements for varying recorder groupings (SA, SS, SSA, SpSA, SSTT, SSATT). Lower intermediate to advanced difficulty levels. Includes a teacher's full score book with optional unpitched percussion instrument accompaniments and four large-print student books (additional student books avaiailable in sets of four). Songs from Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and The Andes Mountains region.

WorldWinds: Recorder Ensembles from World Folk Music, Vol. 1, Pan-American Pipes

Arts & Photography

King, Carol

Music

Progressive lessons, K-6, for sequential teaching of beat, note and rest values. Rhythm patterns added for each grade through traditional and composed songs that integrate new patterns with those already learned. Speech pieces, movement, and orchestrations for Orff instruments are also provided. Step-by-step process suggestions given.

Monkey Business

Jim Solomon

These historical European dances are set for soprano and tenor recorders, hand drums, triangles, and finger cymbals. The recorder part is intermediate, ranging from C to high E. Discover background information about each dance in the text, and learn to perform them, using the easy directions and practice hints. (The teacher book comes with one student book.)

Medieval and Renaissance Dances for Recorders, Dancers, and Hand Drums

Carley, Isabel McNeill

The collection contains three ostinato songs, six canons, and five easy three-part songs (SSA or SAA with baritone option) all designed to help middle school singers make the transition from unison singing to independent part singing.  The six original canons have optional ostinato parts for baritones with limited range. The ostinato songs (folk songs accompanied with vocal ostinatos) may be performed with one, two or three ostinatos, as desired. The part songs have optional unpitched percussion ostinato accompaniments.  The sixteen-page book is "octavo" sized for easy student use. (Ten-paks are available at a discount-see ISBN 0934017549.)

Shared Harmony: Canons and Ostinato Songs for Beginning Part Singing

McRae, Shirley W.

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