Goldilocks and the Three Bears Orff Exploration

Hey guys, my name is Erin Elliott, and I am the creator behind From Do Re Mi To You. And I wanted to share a lesson that has been really helpful with my kindergartners. They have been doing a lot of orf exploration on the big xylophones recently. And we took the story, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and we brought it to life. So I'm gonna show you what I do. I have digital visual slides that you can use, but you can do this without the slides as well. So in our story, we set the xylophones up in C pentatonic. Now I set them up for my students. I don't have the kindergartners take bars off yet. And we talk about the bigger bars being lower, the middle bars being the middle sounds, and the smaller bars being the higher sounds. And we correspond those to the different characters in the book. So Papa Bear is played on the three bars on the bottom, Mama Bear on any of the five bars in the middle, and Baby Bear, the two bars up top. So in our story, they respond to different things by playing on the bars. So when we talk about Papa Bear, we do alternating hands like this. Papa Bear, Mama Bear in the middle, and Baby Bear. And they get to choose which notes they play as long as they're playing them with them. In our story, when the bears go on a walk, we practice crossover hands. As much as we can on going on a walk, going on a walk, as much as we can. When Goldilocks comes in and she tries their porridge, sits on their chairs, eats in their bed, she complains a lot. She may say, too hot or too soft or just right. So we play hands together in the range of those characters. When the bears come back, then they get really mad. Someone's been eating my porridge. And I teach them how to do a tremolo. You can do a tremolo or you can do a trill, whichever one works best. So Papa Bear may say, someone's been eating my porridge. Mama Bear, maybe take two notes and go, someone's been sitting in my bed. And then for Baby Bear, we do on the upper two notes, someone's been eating my porridge and it's gone. And at the very end of the story, when Goldilocks runs out, instead of going on a walk, going on a walk, we go, going on a run, going on a run. Now this is a story that's really easy to do on your own and just teach them the parts. But if you are a visual learner like me, or if you have students who are very much visual, I have a set of slides that go through the entire story and go through all the directions of what to play, when. And my students have been really engaged and they've really loved playing on the xylophones this spring. I hope this is helpful. You can check the link below for the product. Have a great day. ♪♪♪