Introduction: In many cases, music can touch people's soul in a way that even the most beautiful words cannot. It can make people feel enlightened. In music activities, children can fully stimulate their imagination and diverse thinking through the creation of a democratic and free situational atmosphere, and participate in multi-sensory emotional experiences, thereby igniting the spark of innovative consciousness and cultivating innovative thinking and innovative abilities. How to carry out music activities in kindergartens
1. Create a democratic and free atmosphere and cultivate children’s innovative consciousness
If children’s minds are planted in fertile soil, they will be very Grow naturally. ?Fertile soil? refers to a suitable environment and a pleasant learning situation. The seeds of innovative consciousness need suitable soil to germinate. Due to age characteristics, children's creativity will not appear under orders and coercion, but can only appear in a relaxed environment without psychological burden.
Mr. Tao Xingzhi once pointed out: The best condition for creativity is democracy. Only democracy can liberate the creativity of the greatest number of people. ?Therefore, we advocate providing children with a democratic and free situational atmosphere in teaching to stimulate children's sense of innovation. Music comes from life, and life is composed of many situations. Each situation has its own unique content and emotions, which can arouse different feelings in children. It can be said that music itself is a vivid situational atmosphere.
1. Joyful emotions
Music education brings people various feelings with the situational charm of sound, and the melody of music changes in ups and downs. In the twists and turns, in the contrasting combination of movement and stillness, high and low, fast and slow, tight and loose, it arouses people's emotional waves and inspires people's creative inspiration.
For example, when learning the Mongolian dance group "Little Herdsmen", the children and I played the roles of the old horse and the pony. Following the vivid music, I led the children to gallop on the beautiful prairie. (Outdoor Lawn), sometimes fast, sometimes slowly, sometimes lowering their heads to eat grass, sometimes lying prone to rest. The children seemed to be in a beautiful prairie, immersed in the scene, and very happy. When the children's emotions were high, I lost no time in saying: "There are many Xinjiang people living on the beautiful prairie." The children there know how to move their necks. Do you want to learn how to move their necks? The children all cheered and said loudly: "Yes!" OK, let's learn to dance the Xinjiang dance "Xinjiang is good" together. ?
The children's curiosity was aroused, and they looked very cute when they twisted around. Although each of them did not dance particularly gracefully, they were full of fun. Throughout the learning process, teachers create a relaxed and democratic atmosphere for children, and the contextual appeal of music makes every child mesmerized and express themselves freely and boldly, thereby activating children's innovative thinking.
2. Guide the journey with music
Music has a strong pleasant effect, and every normal person is happy to appreciate it. Being able to admire beauty with all your heart is a sign of being willing to be taught. Only when a person's spirit is relaxed can he have positive and innovative thinking. For example, in the music game "Little Birds Flying", I let the children listen to beautiful and brisk music and imitate the flying and hunting movements of various birds in the outdoor woods. The children follow the music and learn how the swallows fly around lightly. Imitate the woodpecker catching insects, and then imitate the peacock fluttering its feathers and opening its tail? They express themselves boldly and boldly under the rich and colorful appeal of music, and subtly show us the beautiful sounds (the sounds of various bird calls). )? Beautiful forms (the daily forms of bird life)? Beautiful movements (the flying movements of birds)? Beautiful worlds (the world of birds).
Perhaps the children’s initial self-expression behavior cannot be called innovative ability in a strict sense, but because the situational teaching itself has the characteristics of true form, emotional touch, far-reaching meaning, and rich rationale, it makes We firmly believe that as long as we continue to provide children with a democratic, free, relaxed and lively atmosphere, children's innovative behaviors will take root and thrive day after day, year after year.
2. Stimulate imagination and divergent inspiration, and cultivate children’s innovative thinking
In previous music teaching activities, we were used to restraining children, thinking that children can’t do anything the teacher says. Whatever you listen to, you have to do it. Over time, children develop the bad habit of blind obedience, form a kind of inertia in thinking, and inhibit the development of children's creativity. Children often answer questions with the same answer, without rich imagination, and lose themselves. Mr. Tao Xingzhi proposed: If we want to create a new nation, we can only promote scientific seeing, scientific speaking, scientific listening, and scientific moving! Therefore, in education and teaching activities, I often inspire children to see more and learn more. Speak more, listen more, and move more. This not only cultivates children's self-confidence, but also activates the classroom atmosphere and cultivates children's ability to think about problems from multiple perspectives.
1. Encourage free imagination
Mr. Tao Xingzhi once said this: Let us liberate children's hands and liberate children's mouths, so that children can gain freedom of speech. in order to give full play to their creativity.
?Practice has proven that the reason why children can play freely is that there is no right or wrong in the creative activities of music. It will not cause children's frustration. Instead, it will allow children to experience the fun of discovery and exploration and the joy of success in the creative process. Therefore, in daily life and teaching, I encourage children to imagine freely.
For example: Once I played a piece of music accidentally. The melody of the music was very beautiful at first, and then the melody turned into a deep and gloomy one. So I used this song to let the children appreciate it and inspire their imagination: What kind of animals do you think are in this piece of music? The children immediately started chirping, and some said: There are wild geese and swans, like a sea of ??wild geese and swans. fallen leaves. ?They couldn't help but act out while talking. (Continue to play music) Because of the sudden turn to low, the children showed signs of panic. Some hugged their shoulders and huddled together, and some made ferocious looks. Wei Quanhong crawled and twisted on the ground. ., and said: "I am a green snake." ?
When the music ended, I asked the children to give the music a name. Some of them said: "Call it the Lion King!" Some said: "Call it the animals in the forest." ?Ferocious animals. ?I gave them affirmation and encouragement one by one. The children gave full play to their imagination and showed various animal postures based on their own understanding of music. During the activity, the teacher gave great affirmation to each child's behavior. Just as sunlight and rain are the necessary phenological conditions for the growth of seedlings, adults' affirmation and recognition provide sufficient nutrients for the creative fields of children's imagination, so that Young children are free to grow up vigorously.
2. Promote novelty and creativity
The new outline clearly states: Provide opportunities for free expression, encourage children to boldly express their emotions, understanding and imagination in different art forms, and respect children’s Ideas and creations, affirming and accepting their unique aesthetic feelings and expressions. ?There are no two identical leaves in the world. Similarly, children have different talents and qualities. To enable children's potential to be fully developed at their respective starting points, teachers should accept each child with appreciation. The shining point in the child. Children with creative tendencies often have some novel ideas and "cunning ideas", like to express themselves in front of adults and peers, and love to be unconventional.
Therefore, we break the single evaluation standard to cultivate and protect children's innovative spirit. For example: In the teaching activity of learning to sing the song "One Penny", I first compiled the song into a story and left a question at the end of the story: What would you do if you picked up this penny? Children They all said: "Leave it to the police uncle." ?At this time, I saw Liu Yanling muttering to herself next to me, saying that one penny is too little. Now there is no penny, and the least is ten cents. I took her topic with a smile and said: What will you do if you find this dime? Give it to the poor beggar!? Okay, let’s put all the ideas we thought of into a song and sing it. . ?
From this, the arrangement of "A Dime" began? From this example, we can easily see that the more things children know, the scope of their imagination will become wider and wider, and the more they can Stimulating children's inspiration and generating new creations is the characteristic of divergence. Therefore, teachers must find ways to guide children to engage in more creative music activities and encourage children to think about problems from different perspectives in order to cultivate children's creative thinking.
3. Promote participatory and multi-sensory emotional experiences and cultivate children’s innovative abilities
Maslow once said with confidence: “Almost all children, when inspired, At any time, without planning or prior intention, you can create a song, a poem, a dance, a painting, a game or a competition. ?We might as well observe the children around us. If you play music, he (she) will dance to the music. You do not need to teach him or her, but he or she is born with the ability to feel music. If you give him a percussion instrument, he will bang it randomly on it. In the minds of adults, this is regarded as "knocking randomly" and "jumping around", but in the hearts of children, it is the most direct expression of music.
1. Participatory experience
For children, it is not only to learn a song well, but more importantly, to cultivate their sense of participation based on their age characteristics. I remember that when I performed "March of the Lion King" at a music event again, I asked the children to play various roles. I first let the children listen to this piece of music repeatedly, then let the children feel the emotions in the music, and then let them boldly use The character expresses the music and depicts the music.
The children who played the role of the Lion King showed the Lion King’s confident psychology and majestic demeanor with their movements in accordance with the sound of music. Their eyes were wide open and they walked with a lively attitude. The children who played the roles of tigers and foxes They used their eyes to express the fear and respect of the little animals when they saw the lion. Some simply hid under the big tree; the children who played other small animals said with trembling mouths: The lion is coming. The lion is so scary? I know. At this time, the children have developed an immersive feeling. The music puts them in the big woods, as if the little animals are watching everything happening in the forest. The music makes them creative.
2. Multi-sensory experience
Some seemingly simple music games have given people a lot of inspiration.
Once, when I was giving a rhythm class, I asked the children to listen to the music and make sounds with their bodies. A child who was usually naughty loudly told me: "Teacher, your feet can sing too." ?Children do not think that singing is done with the mouth, but that any place where sound can be made is called singing. Although children will find this idea ridiculous when they grow up, it further proves that music is not a simple process of listening, memorizing, and singing, but a comprehensive art that is integrated with various factors and needs to be felt with the heart.
The child’s behavior gave me great inspiration, which led me to have new ideas in future music teaching. For example, I advocated mobilizing children’s ears, mouths, hands, and feet, and participating with multiple senses. . Mainly through a series of singing, games, and creative activities, children are trained to move along with the music to enhance their physical coordination. For example, singing "Net Little Fish" allows children to fully imagine that they are small fish doing what they are doing in the water. This is to first feel the lyrics through movements and feel the music with their own impromptu movements. This is the most natural learning method. .
Ask the children what Xiaoyu sang in the song just now? The children will give you many different explanations; no matter what, the little head is not stopped, the little hands are not idle, and the calves are even more She was moving hard, and her little mouth was not stopping to "talk". In this way, singing and performing with all her heart was much happier than simply teaching singing before. This will subtly cultivate children's creativity and make classroom teaching vivid and full.
Music has such magical power, and its rich and colorful artistic appeal can provide colorful feathers for the cultivation of children's creativity. Teachers design and organize creative music education activities mainly to cultivate children's innovative consciousness and creative ability, and we should put the cultivation of innovative consciousness in a more important position.
To this end, teachers must follow the principle of step-by-step to ensure that each child can continue to succeed from the activities; teachers must give children methods according to their actual needs to ensure that children gain positive concepts and Positive experience. Mr. Tao Xingzhi once said: "Every day is a time of creation, everywhere is a place of creation, and everyone is a creator." ?Let us, the soul engineers of the new era, join hands and march towards the road of creation together.