Learning Through 'The Creative AR​TS'

Name Play

Orff Approach

 

 

Year Level: All

Lesson Idea: Using students names in the rhythm, beat and song to get to know one another

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duration of Lesson: 20minutes

 

Learning intention: We are learning to word rhythms to subdivide the beat and to get to know each other.

 

Success Criteria: We are able to clap and speak words on a regular beat with rhythms that makes sense

 

Resources Needed:I pad

 

Student Back ground or knowledge: Students have had no experience in music at all this lesson is designed to be a good introduction to music making in simple and fun way.

 

Assessments ideas: Observations and Diagnostic assessment for individual strengths and weakness in students ability to work together, and where to go to next in my teaching and how to cater my teaching to the students stage and knowledge and skills.

 

Procedure

 

Introduction:

• Teacher demonstrates the chant and the clap at the same time to introduce herself to the students

• Teacher and students clap through certain people's names as a model of how to clap names

• Teacher purposefully picks contrasting names to give clarity to students

 

Activity 1

• Students are asked to try the chant

• Student are then instructed to copy the teacher with the clap only

• Students then put the chant and the clap togetherStudent then say each other's names within the chant

 

Activity 2

• Students now have to remember each other's names and they call out the name of the person who is next to pick a name.

• Teacher and students have a run through of this game.

• Students to go away to tables and to come up with their own name game rhythm

 

Activity 3

• Students come together as a class and demonstrate their name game rhythms,

• Student present to a formal audience formation

 

Conclusion

• Student are to reflect on their name game by writing a good copy of their name rhythm in words and then to visually represent the long and shorts of the word rhythms by any form of symbol or graphic notation.

 

Hot tip: Use this for rhythmic books in reading and writing classes