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Please join us for the 2023-2024 Idaho Orff Workshops! We have secured outstanding presenters for our workshops and hope you'll join us as we sing, dance, and create together!
OCTOBER 6 + 7
BethAnn Hepburn
Friday: Invitations for Creativity
Manipulatives invite students to work together to create movement and music that is their own. This workshop will focus on students working with a partner or a group to create their own movement, rhythm, and melodies. Discover watys to use manipulatives to meet individual student needs and spark student creativity. Explore objects hands-on to inspire rhythm building bricks and phrases to develop larger ensembles. The lessons will be focused on both primary and upper elementary classroom lessons. Join us and pur creative ideas right in the palms of your hands! Please bring a recorder.
Saturday: Level Up! Bumping Up Games & Rhymes
We will "level up" in two ways: we will level up from grades K-5 with a variety of singing games. Each of the games will go to the next level by focusing on student creativity through the Orff Schulwerk process that focuses on improvisation, composition, and ensemble extensions of games. We will also bump up rhymes by using rhymes and poems as the impetus to guide student elementary ensemble creations.
Please visit our website for more information about BethAnn Hepburn.
JANUARY 20 - CHAPTER SHARE + INSTRUMENT REPAIR
Learn how to repaid your Orff xylophones, metallophones, and glockenspiels. Join us for some fun folk dancing and movement ideas. Also, learn how to take children's literature and turn them into wonderful performances!
FEBRUARY 24
Katie Miller: The Volumes and YOU! What You Can Do!
Do you ever feel overwhelmed when you look at the Music for Children Orff Schulwerk Volumes? Are you afraid to admit that you don't use the volumes like you think you should? You are not alone! This presentation gives a "down to earth" perspective of how to use the volumes. Ideas and suggestions are shared to help get you started using and understanding the volumes like a true Orff teacher!
Pleave visit our website to learn more about Katie Miller.