Childrens Stories and Activities
for Grades K-5
Are you looking for a new way to present your favorite children’s literature in your music classes? Unsure of what to do with your favorite books? Need some fresh new ideas that dovetail with your training in Orff Schulwerk? This is the book to try!
There are ten books presented in this collection. The ideas presented are suggestions from Josh intended to switch on your imagination to embellish, create, and adapt as you wish. Josh’s intent to suggest processes and ideas of how to approach children’s literature can turn your music classroom into a center of creative learning.
Online access is included with each book and includes full color visuals for your presentation stations and full scores for projection or to print.
Josh Southard is the Music Specialist at Smoky Row Elementary School in Carmel, Indiana. There he teaches K-5 music, as well as a 5th grade Orff Ensemble, and was named the 2018 Teacher of the Year. In January of 2019, he was also named the Indiana Elementary Music Teacher of the Year by the Indiana Music Educators Association. He has completed all of his levels of Orff-Schulwerk certification, as well as Orff Curriculum and Composition at Anderson University. He is a past-president of the Indiana Orff Schulwerk Association, and served on the National Board of Trustees of AOSA as the Regional VI Representative.
Josh is a featured presenter at Orff workshops around the country, state and national conferences, and has had articles published in both the Orff Echo and Reverberations. He teaches Level II Orff Certification courses in Gwinnett County in Atlanta, GA, and Level I at DePaul University and Anderson University.
