Organizational strategies for gamification of children’s music education

Based on the age characteristics and perceptions of children who are active, playful, curious, imitative, creative, involved, exploring and performant The characteristics of music are supported by the theories of pedagogy and psychology, using gamification methods to organize music activities and accept the influence of music. Allow children to truly enjoy art and feel the charm of art in gamified activities, cultivate children's hobbies and interests in music activities, and develop their aesthetic abilities. Now, based on years of music teaching practice, I will talk about my experience in music teaching.

(1) Fun in movement

According to the active characteristics of children, game activities should pay attention to rhythm, use activities to stimulate children's physical movements, and allow children to naturally move during the activities. Move and let your body and mind become active accordingly.

On the one hand, the activity "Little Bear Crossing the Bridge" stimulates children's interest in practicing singing. At the same time, during the two-part recitation process, it cultivates children's coordination ability and attention distribution, and develops and experiences rhythm. The emotions of beauty and harmony inspire the children to compose lyrics of different animal sounds while singing and dancing, making the children's thinking actively active and at the same time unleashing the children's imagination and creativity.

(2) Have fun

According to the fun characteristics of children, game activities should pay attention to the fun. Music, movements, and activities should be able to stimulate children's interest and produce aesthetic experience and aesthetic emotions. Such as the game "Climbing the Great Wall".

Children can sing simple Peking Opera tunes and like to sing, especially the prelude and interlude, with the addition of the Gong and Drum Sutra X X X X | Qicang Yitai Cang | Cangcang Yitai Cangjing, while creating and compiling various styles of Peking Opera debut movements, they were very happy.

(3) Enjoy the wonders

According to the characteristics of children who are curious and eager to imitate, music activities must be exploratory. Continuously provide new stimulation in the game to stimulate children's curiosity, thereby generating strong interest and promoting children's exploration of unknown factors. During the activities, teachers should encourage children to think independently, explore boldly, and guide children to discover, perceive, and Creation enables the development of young children's creative thinking and cultivates children's habit of being diligent, willing and good at observation. Such as games "What is the teacher doing?" and "Watch the action and shoot the rhythm."

(4) Enjoy the competition

Make use of children’s competitive characteristics and moderately adopt competitiveness, especially in large classes, give play to children’s psychological advantages of being competitive and unwilling to lag behind, and fully mobilize Children's initiative, focus on cultivating children's ability to participate in competition, enhance children's independence, cultivate children's spirit of taking risks, perseverance, and good cooperation, help children establish self-esteem, and cultivate a spirit of mutual understanding among peers (see Games "Listen to the Music and Find Home", "Tug of War").

(5) Have fun in creation

Taking advantage of children’s tendency to create, every action in the game should be inspired by children to create their own, and the actions should be different from those made by others. Meet the psychological needs of young children to be creative.

(6) Enjoy participation

Taking advantage of the characteristics of children's good performance and participation, teachers must be very patient and purposeful in each activity so that all children can participate in music. activities to meet children’s psychological needs for participation and acceptance.

(7) The form of gamification of early childhood music education

The gamification activities of early childhood music education are rich and colorful, including not only singing, dancing, and playing, but its methods should be In terms of comprehensiveness, for example, children can be educated aesthetically with the help of story soundtracks, role performances, drama performances and other comprehensive artistic means. Literature, art, and rhythmic activities also have the same origins and laws of creation and appreciation. Gamified music activities should include poetic language, story-sounding activities, music activities with rich sounds and emotions, rhythmic activities with beautiful shapes, interesting and changeable modeling activities, and various creative activities with music accompaniment... to enable children to play in games In the activities, we can truly enjoy the enjoyment of art, feel the charm of art, cultivate children's hobbies and interests in music activities, and develop their aesthetic ability.