ORFF Club
Sponsor: Ms. Genevieve Simms
Orff Club is an auditioned instrumental, singing, and movement group for 4th and 5th graders. Students follow the Orff process, where they take ownership of their music making by creating and composing much of what we perform on stage. Orff Club rehearses every Thursday morning from 7:15-7:55 AM in Ms. Simms' music room starting on September 12th through December 5th.
Orff Schulwerk is an approach to music teaching and learning, combined with and supported by movement, based on things children like to do: sing, chant rhymes, clap, dance, and keep a beat or play a rhythm on anything near at hand. These natural behaviors are directed first into responding to and making music; reading and writing music are a later natural outgrowth of these experiences. Composer Carl Orff, originator of the approach, called this music and movement activity “elemental” – basic, unsophisticated, concerned with the fundamental building blocks of both art forms.
The purpose is to provide a means for awakening the potential in every child for being “musical” – able to understand and use music and movement as forms of expression. The further intent is to develop a foundation for lifelong enjoyment of music and movement/dance, and for some, the incentive for specialized individual study.
