Judy Sills

A collection of 22 selected poems by Dennis Lee from his books, Alligator Pie, Garbage Delight, Jelly Belly and The Ice Cream Store, orchestrated in the Orff style as speech pieces, songs, hand games, or full orchestrations. Some pieces include choreographed folk-style dances.

Doug Goodkin

A well-rounded collection of language, movement, and music activities for grades K-8.

More jazzy songs for funky kids of all ages – with a fair dinkum Aussie flavour
A great collection of original songs, dances and instrumental activities, musical games and stories for funky kids of all ages.

Brent Holl

This collection of eleven canons and arrangements is suitable for young singers in grades 3 – 8.

Chris Judah Lauder

Conga Drum Activities for grades 4-8 with teaching visuals cd.

Denise Gagne’s popular collection Composing With Boomwhackers® contains songs, activities, and reproducible worksheets and templates for teaching children to compose with Boomwhackers®. Activities involving improvisation, rhythm, form, poetry orchestration, 3-note melodies, pentatonic melodies, and diatonic melodies lead to writing your own poem and melody. This method also works well with recorders and Orff instruments and comes with a Performance/Accompaniment CD.

Brent Holl

A set of Orff ensemble pieces in progressive levels of difficulty for students in grades 5 – 8.

Chris Judah Lauder

Hand Drum Activities for Grades 1 – 8

Susan Brumfield

Hot Peas and Barley-O is a collection of thirty-one children’s songs and games from Scotland, selected, transcribed and annotated by Dr. Susan Brumfield. Beautifully illustrated with rare photos from the past, along with the fresh faces of children of today, this book is filled with traditional children’s music passed down from one generation to another, including rhymes for skipping rope, counting out, and ball-bouncing, singing games and songs just for fun. The enclosed CD contains authentic field recordings collected in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, and new recordings that feature children from the National Youth Choir of Scotland and the New Beacon School for Boys. Hot Peas and Barley-O includes historical references for each song, pedagogical indices and suggestions for developing a literacy-based curriculum. Ideally suited for teaching musical skills, this collection provides a vocabulary of music and play from which children can draw today. Adults and kids of all ages will discover the fun and enjoyment of listening, learning, singing and playing these songs for generations to come. Songs include: Eetle Ottle Black Bottle, Teddy Bear Teddy Bear, Granny in the Kitchen, Down to the Baker Shop, Rosy Apple Lemon and a Pear, I’m the Monster of Loch Ness, Hot Peas and Barley-O, I’m a Bone-Legged Chicken and many more! Available: Book/CD Pak. For Grades 1-6.

Doug Goodkin

Music educator Doug Goodkin offers both philosophical and practical ways to teach music through language and enhance literacy programs with music.

Don Dupont and Brian Hiller
15 fully processed lessons in five sections; Rhythm, Melody, Form, Texture and Harmony. Each section contains three lessons, one each for early, middle & upper elem. students.

Don Dupont and Brian Hiller

18 fully processed lessons in six sections, as above with the addition of “Timbre”. Each section contains three lessons, one each for early, middle and upper elementary students. Both books contain original songs, traditional melodies, American and world folk music as well as orchestrations, poems, movement and game suggestions. The lessons integrate the elements of Orff-Schulwerk through singing, speech, movement, and instrument playing.

Kids Music Company

The teacher’s book has extensive notes with simple steps, including ideas for adding movement.

Lynn Kleiner

The creative ideas and stories for movement and percussion-playing in Kids Can Listen, Kids Can Move! will delight children of all ages

Miriam Samuelson

Traditional Hebrew songs and dances (including Hava Nagila), arranged for voices, recorders and Orff instruments. Detailed instructions (with diagrams) are given for the dances and the text for the songs is written in transliteration: the Hebrew words are not difficult to pronounce. Kukuríku • Hanoded • Dundai • Kol Dodi • Zemer Atik • Hava Nagila • Shibolet Basadeh • Hiney Ma Tov

Michael R Nichols

With a dozen songs and activites for music classes in grades 3 – 6, this new collection for singers, recorder players, and orff instruments is a great resource for music teachers.

“Listening Fun with Scarves and Tennis Balls” is a perfect resource for a teacher or activity leader who wants to help elementary grade students become active listeners through moving to music. These are new and engaging activities for kids that will keep them active, help develop physical and mental coordination, give them a great feeling of success, and develop spacial awareness and social cues. While they learn about great music, they’ll just think they’re having fun.

This is as much a digital resource as a print resource. It includes three discs. For all eleven listening selections, it includes an audio CD, video of kids performing the routines, video and reproducible print biographies of the composers, projectable lesson materials, plus complete lesson plans and instructions for the teacher, and other supplements. There is even a “guide-at-a-glance” sheet the leader can refer to while teaching each routine. The movement instructions are simple and clear enough for anyone to learn quickly, and the videos can also be used as an aid to learn the routines. The author has included everything needed to incorporate these activities successfully into the music curriculum in multiple ways (but provide your own scarves and tennis balls!). Music instruction objectives and assessments are included in the lesson plans. There is so much here that is useful–the composer videos alone are a great resource and extremely well-done.

Gerard Van de Geer

In writing and arranging this music I have aimed to build onto the wonderful work of Jon Madin and his Marimba publications…