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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)

Tideo Folk Song Orff Arrangement

Bring the folk song Tideo into your elementary music classroom with an easy Orff arrangement and a full sequence of activities. This multi-lesson resource gives students opportunities to prepare, present, and practice mi-re-do and sixteenth-note rhythms through singing, movement, rhythm, and playing. The step-by-step slides do the planning for you, so you can focus on your students and let the teaching magic begin!

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Melody & Rhythm Practice

Students will love the singing games/dances while experiencing mi, re, do in the melody (a video Poison Pattern game) and sixteenth notes in the rhythm.

January Beats is another great resource that uses four sixteenths!

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What Music Teachers Are Saying

On Student Engagement & Classroom Flow: “I taught my kids the song and game Tideo. Then I had my kids play the song on the xylophones/Orff. This was perfect for my class. My kids loved it!”
— Hannah W. (4th & 5th Grade Teacher)
For Interactive Tech & SMART Boards: “I have used many of the pages to have students fill in the rhythm or the solfège on the smart board. I will incorporate the Orff instruments soon.”
— Denise K. (3rd Grade Teacher)
For Visual Learners: “The color-coding is so helpful for my students who learn visually as well.”
— Lauren B. (4th Grade Teacher)

See the presentation preview on TPT

Easy Orff Arrangement

In C pentatonic, Tideo’s easy Orff arrangement using three ostinati can be expanded to include an optional instrumental B section and an improvised C section.

The instrumental parts are taught using speech and body percussion in easy-to-follow slides. Use this multi-lesson low/no prep format in either Google Slides or PowerPoint.

Tideo song and orff arrangement lesson plan resource orff arrangement info

The Presentation

Singing Game/Dance-the presentation teaches a double circle routine.
Rhythm-*quarters, paired eighths, and 4 sixteenths in the song.
- Rhythm-*Eighth note with 2 sixteenths in the B section
Melody–mi, re, do is highlighted in the presentation
- Melody-the song also includes high do
Orff Arrangement-a 3 ostinati arrangement with additional parts for optional B and C sections
Other Instruments: Recorder/Boomwhacker-notation and melodic color-coding using C, D, E, G, A, C’
- Ukulele-LOVE these pentatonic tunes so one chord, C, the entire time.

*Rhythms aren’t labeled so you can use your classroom rhythm counting system.

My Favorite Part
I LOVE that you can extend the form and add lots of different instruments to the point this fun song could easily become a concert piece.

The resource includes:
A presentation in both PPT and Google Slides versions
A video preview of the song arrangement in each presentation
A PDF copy of the song arrangement sheet music

Hear the arrangement on TPT

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