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Cheers To The New Year With JANUARY Music BEATS Play Along

January music lessons get an EASY kickstart with this Orff arrangement and improvisation play along to a FUN backing track.

This new year poem resource with sixteenth notes and a simple Orff arrangement, will guide you through improvising on barred instruments as you play along to a FUN backing track.

Available in both PowerPoint™️ and Google Slides™️ formats.

Look & Listen

Music & Resource Analysis

C Major la-based pentatonic scale
2/4
Rhythmic Content-sixteenths (4), quarter notes/rests, barred eighths
Harmonic Content-Am, C, C6 (opt. ukulele)

Barred Instruments-improvisation and simple ostinati
Boomwhackers (opt)-create a new melody using poem rhythm
Rhythm Assessment

January Beats Orff Resource Lesson Plans

Student & Teacher Benefits

January Music Engagement

use speech, body percussion, and movement to help learn the instrumental parts
create and improvise
guided through the learning process with a sequenced resource
learn with a presentation that uses differentiation through color-coding and varying text styles

guided through the process of improvising in la-based C pentatonic

Instrumentation

barred instruments (any combination will work)
claves
ukulele (opt) chord C or C6
spoken voices

Speaking of Sixteenth Notes

Here are more resources featuring prominent 16th notes!

More Great Learning in January

Martin Luther King Day happens so quickly once we return from winter break. Here are some great resources!

Learning About MLK Through Music
We Shall Not Be Moved (how to use in the classroom)

All Around the Buttercup With Easy Orff Arrangement

Are you ready to add barred instruments to classic songs and games? This All Around the Buttercup resource includes an easy Orff arrangement that is taught with body percussion, speech, and great visuals. It includes the classic game and a new one or two with some fun twists. Buttercup is a wonderful song to teach quarter notes and rests and eighth note pairs, as well as so, mi, re, do patterns.

Listen to it here

There’s something for kids grades K-3. K and 1st can play a bordun and 2nd and 3rd can add on the melody and a super FUN ostinato.

All ages can play the classic game as well as some NEW versions to kick it up a notch!

With a so-mi-re-do, many teachers use this song to present “re” to their students.

It’s a beautiful example to our youngest students to hear one sound, two sounds, or NO sounds on a beat!

This low prep resource hands you a couple or MANY lessons, READY to teach!

Listen to it here

PS: I added a 2nd and 3rd verse in case you want to lengthen it for a performance!

Bounce High Bounce Low With NEW Rhyme And Orff Arrangement

Find engaging ways for your students to play BARRED INSTRUMENTS with a NEW easy-to-teach rhyme melody and Orff arrangement, that goes with the CLASSIC song Bounce High Bounce Low.

This song is perfect for you to prepare, present, or practice “la” with its so, la, so, mi pattern as well as for you to teach quarter and paired eighth notes.

Bounce High Bounce Low song with Orff arrangement and new rhyme melody.

The new rhyme extends the learning into a beautiful ternary ABA form and is part of this practically no-prep, multi-lesson resource.

Listen on TPT

The resource includes:

A presentation in both PPT and Google Slides versions
A VIDEO of the song arrangement in both presentation formats
A PDF copy of the sheet music

Not enough barred instruments? On the bordun, use Boomwhackers or ukuleles. On the melody, use melody bells or Boomwhackers.

❤️❤️❤️ The ukulele part can be played using a C6 chord-ALL OPEN STRINGS! Check it out!

PS. There’s a wonderful call & response creative activity that incorporates rhyming, geography, and music terms! WHAT? Yep, SO fun!

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Rattlin’ Bog Song And Orff Arrangement For St. Patrick’s Day

You can now sing, do the motions, and PLAY this Irish favorite, The Rattlin’ Bog, with a lively Orff barred instrument arrangement (and optional ukulele part) for St. Patrick’s Day, all during March, or whenever you want that cumulative song, breathless laughter FUN!