These materials will allow our students to participate throughout the entire class using Orff instruments (xylophones, metalophones, glockenspiels), rather than having to share a small half of an instrument, or switch with a partner after each time we work on a song. Having enough instruments for each student to have their own allows them to make music for the entire time they are in my room.
Our students also participate in a project each year that lets them compose their own music. In 4th grade they use drums (which they also do not have enough for each child to have their own), and in 5th grade they use the xylophones (of which they don't have enough either).
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These materials will allow our students to participate throughout the entire class using Orff instruments (xylophones, metalophones, glockenspiels), rather than having to share a small half of an instrument, or switch with a partner after each time we work on a song. Having enough instruments for each student to have their own allows them to make music for the entire time they are in my room.
Our students also participate in a project each year that lets them compose their own music. In 4th grade they use drums (which they also do not have enough for each child to have their own), and in 5th grade they use the xylophones (of which they don't have enough either).