Aug 13, 2024 | Orff Teaching - Special Moments
I think of this as an Orff Teacher’s Heaven. Kids excited and inspired about a day full of singing, dancing, moving, recorder, instrument building, and electives such as “surprise” class, which will include a surprise each day. May be an activity for stretchy band, parachute, a passing game, Sound Shapes, arts and crafts, boom whackers and more! 28 years of presenting this music camp for K-8 students and I’m still just as excited each day. I was inspired to start the camp after attending my very first Orff course, a 3 week course in Arizona with Grace Nash and her talented staff. Every day, I had singing, dance and movement, percussion techniques, Orff process, recorder class, vocal techniques and body percussion. So much fun! I attended many levels of Orff courses, including two level 3s and two Master Classes (Richard Gill and Jos Wuytack) and loved these summers. Now I hope I can do the same each summer for the children who attend my Music Rhapsody’s music camp year after year.
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Aug 13, 2024 | Activities
I love that after 35 years in the early childhood and elementary music classroom, I am still excited about the start of another school year! Looking around Music Box, I am reminded of years of my favorite back to school, fall, Halloween and Thankgiving favorites. If you are looking around Music Box, don’t forget the SEARCH box to look for something specific. I hope you will find some tips and inspiration in these areas of Music Box for the start of another school year.
Check out these topics in the Music Box Blog:
Fall Music Fun for Active Music Making
Back to School Music
Stories with Music
Beautiful Singing
In the Forum:
Fall Songs and Lesson Plans
Thanksgiving
Vocal Health
Pitch Matching
Downloads: This will have a choice of “Hello” songs, some fun story book lesson plans, detailed sets of lesson plans for several age groups and much more.
Questions? Click in the Forum and go to “Ask Lynn Questions.”
Wishing all of you a wonderful school year!
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Aug 13, 2024 | Activities
Recently, a teacher was discussing what brand of recorders to choose for her elementary class. Some of the suggestions were far from the quality that I insist on for my students. I know some settings have very limited resources but if you are able to come up with just a bit more , you may get a whole lot more quality, both in intonation and tone.
I try to impress on the children that the recorder is an amazing instrument, one that comes in lots of different sizes (I show them my set of 6 sizes), an instrument that people have enjoyed playing for hundreds of years, playing music of famous composers from long ago but composers today still write for recorders. I tell them the recorder can be an instrument they enjoy their entire life so take good care of this historical instrument. Its awesome because I can easily take it with me in the car, it plays thousands of songs, etc….! After my big build up, I tell them the great news that THEY get to play this fantastic instrument. Now, do I give them the bright glow in the dark model with sparkles that has a bad tone and is not in tune with my high quality Orff instruments? No, I want them to have one that looks “real,” like a copy of the best wood one made, maybe even designed after one from a museum, one that has the best intonation and tone quality. Buy the best one you possibly can and the sound will be so much better. The ones I use for teacher training and Music Rhapsody are Aulos but I have been happy with the Yamaha – they have improved so much over the years.
Aug 13, 2024 | Recorder & Orff
I just received an email asking about my preferred brand of recorder, a recorder book, lesson plans and materials for teaching recorder from an Orff approach. I use the Aulos, a beautiful 3 piece model. Its more expensive but a very nice instrument. Always go with the best quality you can. The cheap ones sound horrible and a combination of cheap brands is even worse.
There is a variety of recorder materials in Music Box, www.lynnkleinersmusicbox.com, including video workshops with notes on process and music, songs and Orff arrangements for beginning to intermediate level which include teaching process and also stories with recorder (fantastic for the needed repetition of fine motor skills!). A detailed set of recorder lesson plans will also be coming soon, but there’s already an awesome lineup of some of my favorites in Music Box now, go to Downloads then click Recorder on the right side. Don’t forget to go to Music Box Videos, there’s a workshop and the hand outs for that are in downloads. The Search feature in Music Box will help you find all kinds of recorder lessons which include movement, singing, Orff instruments, improvisation and FUN!
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Click Here to view our recorders in the Music Rhapsody online store.
Thanks to AOSA for the opportunity to share my passion for teaching recorder many times over the years and also have the honor of bringing my students to perform at two national AOSA conferences. I hope to see you at the AOSA conference in Nashville, November 5-8 2014.
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Aug 13, 2024 | Classroom Materials
Hello!
About to start my first class and am forgetting whether or not to use the music on the CD’s in class. I enjoy the instrumental accompaniment to the songs and wish there were an instrumental track to be used in class. Especially with the younger ages.
Would Lynn like for SMR teachers to sing along with the CD tracks in class or are the CD’s to be used for our own edification?
Thank you
