One Cold and Frosty Morning: guided lesson for Orff Instruments – Mallets

This guided lesson teaches students in grades K–5 to play a simple bordun on Orff instruments with the song “One Cold and Frosty Morning.” Students warm up their voices and mallets, act out the song, learn to find high and low bars, and then sing and play the song together.

What’s included

• A main menu with clickable links
• Vocal warm-ups, plus a blank template for students to make their own
• A listening and movement activity where students act out the lyrics
• A mallet warm-up to a steady beat
• Slides for finding high and low bars
• Instrument warm-ups with glissandos and single bar hits
• Slides for learning a simple C bordun
• Slides for singing and playing the song together
• Notation in an easy version and the original

Formats

• PDF
• Google Slides: A link is included in your download and lets you add your own copy to Google Drive.
• PowerPoint

Important

• The presentation must be in presentation mode, in PowerPoint or Google Slides, for the clickable links to work.

Ways to use it

• A winter lesson on borduns
• Use the same lesson with Boomwhackers™

Standards (NCAS)

• Performing: Anchor Standard 4 (select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation)
• Performing: Anchor Standard 5 (develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation)

License & help

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