One Brick at a Time
Ensembles, Activities and Songs for Music Classes
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These 14 lessons have been percolating in Josh's classes at his school and in his Orff Level course teaching. All are child tested and true with logical, clear, sequential Orff process lesson plans. Strategies for teaching melodies and rhythms to all elementary grades along with playable yet beautiful arrangements for Orff Instruments
This book is a collection of lessons created and taught in Josh's classroom, designed to build musical skills step by step. Begin with the basics such as singing, steady beat, and simple patterns, and gradually layer on more challenging elements including barred instruments, reading rhythms, performing in ensembles, and improvisation.
Every song learned, every rhythm practiced, and every creative idea tried is a “brick” that helps students become confident, independent musicians. No single lesson is meant to do everything, but together they form a strong foundation for musical understanding and joy.
Online supplemental materials are also included with spectacular full color visuals, full scores, student songsheets and more!
Sing and Play, Stories All Day
Children's Stories and Activities for K-5
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Are you looking for a new way to present your favorite children’s literature in your music classes? Unsure of what to do with your favorite books? Need some fresh new ideas that dovetail with your training in Orff Schulwerk? This is the book to try!
There are ten books presented in this collection. The ideas presented are suggestions from Josh intended to switch on your imagination to embellish, create, and adapt as you wish. Josh’s intent to suggest processes and ideas of how to approach children’s literature can turn your music classroom into a center of creative learning.
Online access is included with each book and includes full color visuals for your presentation stations and full scores for projection or to print.
About Josh Southard
Josh Southard is the Music Specialist at Smoky Row Elementary School in Carmel, Indiana. There he teaches K-5 music, as well as a 5th grade Orff Ensemble, and was named the 2018 Teacher of the Year. In January of 2019, he was also named the Indiana Elementary Music Teacher of the Year by the Indiana Music Educators Association. He has completed all of his levels of Orff-Schulwerk certification, as well as Orff Curriculum and Composition at Anderson University. He is a past-president of the Indiana Orff Schulwerk Association, and served on the National Board of Trustees of AOSA as the Regional VI Representative.
Josh is a featured presenter at Orff workshops around the country, state and national conferences, and has had articles published in both the Orff Echo and Reverberations. He teaches Level II Orff Certification courses in Gwinnett County in Atlanta, GA, and Level I at DePaul University and Anderson University.