Orff Play Program (3-1/2 to 5 years)

Program Info

• 14 classes
• 45 minutes each week
• 8 children with parents
• 4 to 6 children without parents.

Fees

• Tuition is $400 per term
• Payment by cheque or cash
• Susan is flexible with monthly payment plans.

About Orff Play

• This program is very active, chatty and creative! Everything is a game
• It is designed to nurture creativity, music ability and comfort in learning through the body
• Children ready for this program will be playfully engaged through a rich assortment of individual and cooperative kinds of activity
• We offer activity to benefit the whole being of your musical child.

Classes without parents

• Parents usually accompany the children to the music studio and then drop them off and leave before classes begin
• If you intend to stay (or your child intends for you to stay!) then plan to play like a kid. That means be prepared to take off your shoes and join in the fun.

Musical voice, Musical ears & Musical eyes

• Vocal and speech development through singing, chanting, rhymes and vocal play, melodic and rhythmic patterning
• Using the whispering voice, speaking voice, singing voice and calling voices
• Listening games and quiet times
• Storytelling and singing with puppets
• Miming
• Creative music reading and writing
• Increasing use of manipulatives (pictures and stuff to touch) that build a foundation for music reading in following years.

Musical feet, Musical hands and Musical body

• Free dance, creative dance, folk dance, circle and line dances using special children’s music, world music, classical music and story/narrative music and acapella singing
• Development of beat competency and performing rhythm patterns through modeling, echo and play with world percussion instruments, boomwhackers, found sound instruments and mallet collections
• Regular creative use of ukuleles (to establish comfort holding and caring for a guitar-like instrument...they love this!)
• Develop a sense and feeling for ensemble performance through fun and simple songs sung and played during our orchestra time with the Orff instruments
• Musical play (choosing, playing, sharing, labelling) with families of percussion (metals, woods, shakers, scrapers, skins)
• Props and other cool things to keep us active, creative, interested and focussed (stretchy bands, hoops, scarves, balls, microphones, hand & stick & finger puppets, beanbags, paper plates, string, parachute, music boxes, glass chimes, dice games).

Musical Mind

• Music reading and writing experiences that prepare children for learning notation next year!
• Special rhythm pictures and melody pictures that this age group loves and reads easily
• Musical planning and interactive use of musical terminology (forte, piano, tutti, timbre, crescendo, decrescendo, accelerando, ritardando, presto, adagio).

Musical Homework…it’s fun!

• Weekly music homework is designed for parents and children to complete together. Supplies and information cards are provided to each family
• Listening library CD's available weekly
• Children receive a Musicalia carry bag to organize and transport their music games and supplies.