Music may be a relatively abstract aesthetic activity for us adults, but it is different for children.

Children’s understanding of the world is a complex process. When children sing a song, play a tune, or dance, they are experiencing and understanding the world through these artistic activities.

For example, when I was in junior high school, the kindergarten next door often played "Persian Cat" by S.H.E (nowadays, kindergartens will probably change it to "Learning to Meow"), and the teachers would definitely design a "Cat Dance". The children follow along and imitate the cat's movements, sometimes still and sometimes moving. This is a process of aesthetic education and a process of children's understanding of the world.

From a physiological perspective, the preschool period is the period when the brain develops the fastest. During this period, the appearance and weight of the brain are changing, and the cerebral cortex is also developing, requiring a lot of new information stimulation to develop intelligence.

If the child often sings, dances, and raps (no) at this stage, the right brain will be well developed and the entire brain will also develop soundly.

Having said so much, what I really want to express can be summed up in one sentence: Letting children sing good works that suit them is an important way to cultivate talents!

Just today a friend shared a nursery rhyme "Little Happy Flower" in the circle of friends, which caught my attention.

Among the "children's songs" I listened to when I was a child, most of them were modern Western popular English songs, but "Little Happy Flower" was different. As the theme song of the third season of COFCO Fulinmen Sunflower Oil's "I Love Singing Nursery Rhymes", the song integrates the aspects of "cultural confidence" and "Chinese learning enthusiasm" into "nursery rhymes", which goes further than the influence of "vernacular children's songs".

In line with the theme of "Chinese Studies", the arrangement places the classical Chinese pipa and flute in a more important position. At the same time, the composer did not choose to use the traditional pentatonic scale, but still wrote it in the genre of modern pop music. The chorus uses a variation of the "universal chord" 4536251, which is used in both Western and Chinese styles, giving the song a Chinese-style charm and a modern texture. At the same time, the different parts, melody and rhythm of this song are very natural and harmonious, with pleasant ups and downs, fascinating levels, and good memory points, which can give children a good sense of involvement and excitement.

I prefer listening to songs than pure music because I am equally sensitive to language as I am to music. Sensitivity to music is gradually cultivated through a lot of music practice and work; sensitivity to language is "born".

But what I think of as "natural" does not necessarily mean "brought out of the mother's womb." Part of it is the training brought about by listening to songs in childhood.

A good song must have excellent literary quality. While children learn to sing, they also expand their vocabulary. Music and language are highly interconnected. They both have rhythms and sentences, as well as varying factors such as pitch, strength, speed, and timbre. It is extremely helpful for children to listen to more songs and sing more, which is very helpful to improve their oral expression ability. This also lays the foundation for lifelong "eloquence" and even "sense of language", so you must pay attention to it!

As for the impact of "songs" on children's "language sense", the theme song "Little Happy Flower" of the third season of "I Love Singing Nursery Rhymes and Chanting Classics" can be used as a demonstration.

"Little Happy Flower" is written by Le Duoduo, the author of "Hu Xiaonao's Diary" and a famous children's literature writer. "Hu Xiaonao's Diary" has sold an astonishing 10 million copies in three years, and Le Duoduo is also affectionately called "Positive Sister" by readers.

This song "Little Happy Flower" is also as positive as her usual, especially this year's reedited version that incorporates classic ancient poetry, making it even more brilliant.

The two sentences that get straight to the point of the whole song are "The sunflowers in the green garden are waiting for the morning dew and the sun is shining. The sun is shining brightly in the spring, and everything is shining brightly." It comes from Yuefu's "Long Song Xing". It is a lively scene with no uncommon words, making it suitable for children to sing. The sound of the pipa and the melodious rise and fall of the flute make the children's chanting sounds cute and elegant.

The following verses are written in the style of a vernacular children's song, "With the sun, I grow, and with my mother, I thrive." The child's feelings about nature and cognition of family love are just like this bit by bit. be built up.

"The taller you grow every day, the closer you are to the sun. The healthier you are every day, the closer you are to happiness." This is Sister Le Duoduo's teaching to the children, and it is also a lesson for them to thrive. bless. The addition of an adult female voice echoes the voice of another child, and a harmonious and loving picture of a parent-child pair emerges before our eyes, as if we are seeing our own mother and ourselves as children...

After the chorus, continue Quoting three sentences from "Long Song Xing", "I am often afraid that the autumn festival is coming, and the yellow flowers and leaves will wither. Hundreds of rivers reach the east to the sea, when will they return to the west? If young people don't work hard, old people will be sad." Raise your ambitions and tell the children " "Time is precious" principle, some relatively abstract principles are taught in a reasonable and easy-to-accept manner for children. The whole process is smooth and has a high level of intention.