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Orff Arragement

This lesson plan outlines a music lesson for 3rd grade students using the song "Little Tommy Tittlemouse" arranged for Orff instruments. The objectives are for students to play and sing the song with a steady beat, read the musical score, and improvise an ostinato using given notes. The procedure has students practice singing, playing non-pitched percussion, xylophones, and glockenspiels together while keeping the beat. Students also improvise using new notes for part of the arrangement.

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Orff Arragement

This lesson plan outlines a music lesson for 3rd grade students using the song "Little Tommy Tittlemouse" arranged for Orff instruments. The objectives are for students to play and sing the song with a steady beat, read the musical score, and improvise an ostinato using given notes. The procedure has students practice singing, playing non-pitched percussion, xylophones, and glockenspiels together while keeping the beat. Students also improvise using new notes for part of the arrangement.

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“Little Tommy Tittlemouse”

Orff Arrangement Lesson Plan

Grade​: 3rd Grade

Materials: ​Orff instruments (xylophones, non-pitched percussion), mallets

Objectives:
S. will play and sing “Little Tommy Tittlemouse” on Orff instruments with a steady beat
S. will read a basic score for Orff instruments
S. will improvise using notes given to create an ostinato

Standards​:

Prior knowledge:
Song, “Little Tommy Tittlemouse”
Vocabulary term: Steady Beat
Reading basic notation written for Orff instruments
Orff Instrument Technique

Procedure​:
● Before class starts:
○ T. sets up classroom with Orff instruments in circle and sheet music in front of each
instrument
● S. sit at instruments and are instructed to leave the mallets instruments on the ground
● T. starts patting a steady beat, has students join
● T. sings “Little Tommy Tittlemouse”
● S. sing “Little Tommy Tittlemouse” while keeping steady beat
● S. at non-pitched percussion pick up their instruments
● S. with non-pitched percussion instruments play their part with no repeats while the class keeps a
steady beat
○ T. motions for when s. Start singing
● T. asks is someone can point to where they start singing in the sheet music
● Starts song again up up until we come in
● T. asks students at xylophone to pick up instruments
● S. sing through piece again, this time with both xylophone and percussion, other s. Still keeping a
steady beat
● T. asks students at glock to pick up their mallets
● S. read through entire piece, ignoring repeats
● T. addresses problem areas and takes a tempo appropriate for skill level
● T. has asks them to play the way the words go on new notes to themselves (2 minutes)
● S. turn and share with their neighbors
● S. play through entire arrangement, but for the first 4 bars of the 2nd time they play their improv

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