Music and Movement
Orff’s active approach to music for the Montessori classroom and enhanced to include all children
Orff Music for Montessori
Carl Orff’s elemental music is an active approach to music where speech, movement, singing, and play form an inseparable unit. Together with the Montessori bells and tone bars, the multi-sensory pedagogies serve the whole child and every learner.
“Elemental music is near the earth, natural, physical, within the range of everyone to learn and experience and suitable for the child…” Carl Orff (Orff-Schulwerk: Past & Future, 1973)
“Music … an expressive language … expressed by the attitude and movement of body and spirit.” Maria Montessori (Montessori, M. The Advanced Montessori Method – II. Amsterdam: Montessori-Pierson Publishing Company. 2008.)
The Montessori Music and Movement Expert
Inga Sieminski is an international expert in the integration of Orff-Schulwerk Elemental Music into Montessori education. To make this combined Montessori-Orff Music curriculum accessible to all Montessori teachers, Inga has recently completed a lesson manual to accompany her international workshop offerings.
Inga initially completed Montessori trainings at the Primary and Elementary levels and established a land-based primary Montessori program on her family farm in Maryland. She then continued as an elementary guide and Director of Education in the Washington DC area. In her role as Arts Integration Coordinator of the DC Public Schools, Inga has trained and side-coached teachers in multi-sensory learning strategies and adaptive lesson planning. Inga holds the 3-level Certification in Orff-Schulwerk: Music for Children, and has implemented this fun-filled approach in all her primary and elementary Montessori classrooms.
What Montessori Teachers are Saying
This built my confidence with the bells… the simple step-by-step build up of skills… it felt very doable.
Using the body as an instrument… no need to buy expensive instruments… Thank you for this wonderful gift.
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