# Just Orffin' Around - **Price:** $27.00 (USD) - **Author:** Synthia MacEachern - **Format:** Unit Plans | Lesson Plans - **Level / area:** Early Childhood, Elementary - **Topics:** aosa, just orffin' around, orff curriculum, orff remote teaching, spiral curriculum, synthia maceachern - **Delivery:** Digital. Available right after checkout (download link on the order page, by email, and in My Account). - **Availability:** Available - **Rating:** 5.0 out of 5 (5 reviews) - **Product ID:** 15625 - **Buy:** https://fflat-books.com/product/justin-orffin-around/ ![Cover of Just Orffin' Around](https://fflat-books.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SG-Edits-Just-Orffin-Aound-Sing-Play-Move-Create_Page_001-768x1024.jpg) ## Summary #### by Synthia MacEachern **(126 pages)** *This is an eBook for digital download. Bundle this with "[Just Orffin Around- A Digital Experience](https://fflat-books.com/product/just-orffin-around-a-digital-experience/)" and use the code "orffbundle" at checkout to receive $7 off!* **Just Orffin' Around** is a comprehensive, 100+ page resource by Synthia MacEachern designed to bring joyful, structured music-making into the elementary classroom. Built on a spiral curriculum that seamlessly unifies your music program, this collection offers scaffolded lesson plans that are perfect for engaging students across grade levels. Each featured song and original story is developed through four distinct pedagogical frameworks—*Let’s Sing, Let’s Move, Let’s Play,* and *Let’s Create*—to engage students aged 4 to 9. Accessible Orff arrangements and introductory recorder strategies provide a perfect gateway to the instrumentarium, while a wealth of reproducible worksheets and visual aids save you valuable prep time. It is the ultimate all-in-one tool for building active, creative, and foundational musical skills in your youngest learners. ## Description Bring joyful, structured music-making into your elementary classroom! **Just Orffin' Around** is a comprehensive, 100+ page resource packed with Orff arrangements, sequential teaching strategies, and reproducible visual aids designed for both in-person and remote learning. Author Synthia MacEachern provides everything you need to build engaging, scaffolded lesson plans that seamlessly spiral through early elementary music concepts. By utilizing a spiral curriculum, this resource unifies your music program and supports collaborative, cross-grade-level musical experiences. #### Key Features: - **Four-Part Pedagogy:** Each song is developed through four distinct, developmentally appropriate frameworks for ages 4–9: **Let’s Sing, Let’s Move, Let’s Play,** and **Let’s Create.** - **Classic & Original Repertoire:** Features classroom favorites like *"Star Light," "One, Two, Three,"* and *"Acka Backa Soda Cracker,"* alongside MacEachern's original composition, *"Ice Cream."* - **Storytelling in Music:** Includes two original classroom stories designed to spark imagination and integrate literacy. - **Orff Instrument Integration:** Accessible Orff arrangements introduce young learners to the instrumentarium with ease. - **Bonus Recorder Strategies:** Includes introductory recorder extensions for two of the featured songs. - **Ready-to-Use Materials:** Packaged with reproducible worksheets and visual aids to save you hours of prep time. Perfect for building foundational skills, this versatile collection ensures your youngest musicians are active, creative, and successful. ## Customer reviews > “Just Orffin around” offers music educators a selection of resources that can be used in the K-3 classroom. The musical material is presented through the Orff lens, and spirals through the curriculum, where each successive grade uses the same song, but at an appropriate developmental and conceptual level. As a K-12 specialist, I'm a big fan of the spiral curriculum- when you're tight on time, it helps that you can use material the kids already know to work with new skills and concepts. For new teachers, she presents an explanation of Orff terminology and pedagogy and how the Orff philosophy… > > — Kelley Fewer, 5/5, August 2020 > “Just Orffin around” offers music educators a selection of resources that can be used in the K-3 classroom. The musical material is presented through the Orff lens, and spirals through the curriculum, where each successive grade uses the same song, but at an appropriate developmental and conceptual level. As a K-12 specialist, I'm a big fan of the spiral curriculum- when you're tight on time, it helps that you can use material the kids already know to work with new skills and concepts. For new teachers, she presents an explanation of Orff terminology and pedagogy and how the Orff philosophy… > > — Kelley D. Fewer, 5/5, August 2020 > This is a thoughtful, resource demonstrating a deep understanding of both music education and the Orff Schulwerk. Each lesson is explored through the lens of a spiral curriculum, with suggestions for ways you could explore and deep concepts with students from year to year. The book begins with a fantastic FAQ of the Orff philosophy – a great refresher for experts and resource for those new to this style of teaching and learning. To describe each lesson as rich would be an understatement. Every lesson is arranged and adapted for different age groups, various instrument combinations, and tips… > > — Andrew Dyer-Dietz, 5/5, August 2020 > This book is incredibly rich with ideas on how to teach music using the Orff approach from Kindergarten to Grade 3. It uses the spiral curriculum, which, like every concept in the book, is very well explained. Whether you are a beginner teacher new to the Orff approach, or one who uses it regularly, every teacher will find in this book something new to try in their classroom or music class. After a brief summary of different components of the Orff approach, MacEachern presents a simple song which is then used as the basis of her lessons. Those include exercises which increase in difficulty… > > — Louise Lemaitre, 5/5, July 2020 > I LOVED Synthia’s new book, Just Orffin Around – Sing, Play, Move, Create!! I wholeheartedly recommend this book for anyone teaching elementary music! Synthia organizes her book using a spiral approach to teaching curriculum. This is one of my favorite aspects of her book. Guiding students as they progressively build more skill and knowledge each year, while using familiar music or poetry, is brilliant! I also loved how Synthia organizes this progression using the Orff media: move, sing, play, create. This is fundamental to the Orff Approach, where children learn from experiencing, doing and… > > — Denise Wilson, 5/5, July 2020 ## Related resources - [StickBOOM! 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