Orff for Everyone: Happenin' Holidays

Orff for Everyone: Happenin' Holidays

By Donna Dirksing
Book
80 pages 
Grades K-6  

A collection of seasonal songs and arrangments for Orff instruments and classroom percussion that embraces the Orff approach and presents it for everyone, from the novice Orff teacher to the most experienced. A suggested grade level, list of objectives and a suggested process are provided for all 14 arrangements, as is a list of the National Standard(s) for Music Education that they fulfill. Many of these songs and arrangements are suitable for performance.

Contents:

• What Did You Do This Summer? (grades K-2)
• Improvise with the Seasons (grades K-5)
• Autumn - English folk song (grades 3-5)
• Trick or Treat! (grades 3-4)
• Home Sweet Home - Canadian folk songs Canoe Song and Land of the Silver Birch (grades 2-5)
• The First Thanksgiving (grades 3-5)
• Christmas Is Coming - 19th-century English carol (grades 3-5)
• Happy Holidays (grades 3-5)
• Kwanzaa (grades 3-5)
• I Love Winter (grades K-2)
• Love Somebody - American folk song (grades 5-6)
• 100th Day of School (grades K-2)
• Tiny Little Leprechaun (grades K-2)
• A Canon for Spring melody (grades 5-6)
• Green Beats (grades K-2)