Little Mozarts Club

Today, my son is joining the Little Mozarts Club. It's an Orff-Schulwerk-inspired music club  for Years 1 and 2. Students are to play in an ensemble of soprano recorders and simple percussion instruments such as hand bells and drums.

According to wikipedia, the Orff Schulwerk, or simply the Orff Approach, is one of several developmental approaches including the Kodaly Method, Simply Music and Suzuki Method used to teach music education to students. It combines music, movement, drama, and speech into lessons that are similar to child's world of play. It was developed by the German composer Carl Orff (1895–1982) and colleague Gunild Keetman during the 1920s. The Orff Approach is now used throughout the world to teach students in a natural and comfortable environment. The term "schulwerk" is German for (literally) "school work" or "schooling", in this regard in the area of music.

The Orff Approach is a "child-centered way of learning" music education that treats music as a basic system like language and believes that just as every child can learn language without formal instruction so can every child learn music in a gentle and friendly approach. It is often called “Elemental Music making” because the materials needed to teach students are “simple, basic, natural, and close to a child’s world of thought and fantasy”.

My son loves music. At the age of four , he already knew how to play some instruments. His grandfather (my dad) patiently taught him how to play drums & sing in front of  people,  while his dad taught him how to play the piano. I think he got the passion for music from my dad.  He was his first music teacher.