How to stimulate children's interest in learning music
Music is an emotional art, and musical works contain rich emotions. In early childhood music teaching, how to stimulate children's interest in learning, let children learn music happily in the classroom, and improve their musical quality is a question that each of our early childhood teachers must study. Here are some opinions on my teaching practice:
1. Create a relaxed and pleasant learning atmosphere
To create a relaxed and pleasant learning atmosphere, we must first establish a new type of teacher-student relationship Relationships provide guarantee for creating a relaxed, harmonious and active atmosphere. Give the initiative of learning to children, and teachers and students will participate in music practice activities together. Regardless of whether the children perform well or not, our teachers must give encouraging eyes. First, let students have an educational experience of love and emotion. This will stimulate students' interest in music activities and lead children into music.
1. Integrate song learning into stories
Children love to listen to stories very much. Teachers use this feature to compile the content of songs into stories, telling stories while letting students Learning songs will enable children to master the music knowledge they have learned happily and unconsciously. For example, I made up a story based on the song "Little Tabby Cat" and told it to the children: A beautiful little tabby cat walked slowly from a distance, singing "Meow Meow Meow, Meow Meow Meow" in its mouth. At this time, It suddenly found a mouse stealing food, so the kitten approached the mouse lightly, "Meow, meow, meow, meow" and suddenly jumped, the kitten caught the mouse, "Meow--", the kitten happily Singing again. Here, by telling stories and singing songs, children are cleverly reminded of the lively and cute image of kittens. , the first two measures should be sung easily and naturally, the third section should be sung short and jumpy, and the sound should be elastic. The fourth section is sung with fullness and excitement, showing the joy of the kitten catching the mouse. This arrangement makes the children find it interesting and fun, so they quickly master the singing of the songs. Another example: When teaching the song "Little Monkey", I carefully made a teaching wall chart based on the lyrics, which inspired the students' strong enthusiasm for learning. After the students mastered the song, I took out a pair of little monkey headdresses and lost their emotions to the song. The performance is performed locally, using one's own feelings and understanding to blend into the music to express the lively and cute image of the little monkey. It forms a good, harmonious and democratic classroom atmosphere, bringing the children into a beautiful artistic conception, as if the cute and naughty little monkey is in front of them, stimulating their strong emotions and creative desire, thus achieving the children's acceptance of the musical image. Infect and generate feelings of liking.
2. Learn rhythm from the language of daily life
Rhythm exists everywhere in the language of our daily life. We must start from the reality of children and find the rhythm from their living language. For example, learn to syncopate the rhythm "| Come on | Go on |" and so on. As soon as the children see this rhythm pattern, they will immediately remember the language of life and speak it happily. The rhythm that young children find out from their own lives can not only quickly grasp it, but also has a very deep impression and is not easy to forget. In this way, the transition from the rhythm of living language to the rhythm of music not only reduces the difficulty of children learning rhythm, but also improves the validity of children's learning rhythm. Children can learn easily and happily, and remember it firmly. It's great to kill two birds with one stone.
2. Use rhythm to learn singing
Since children have not yet begun to read, it brings certain difficulties to master the lyrics when learning to sing. If teachers can use the lyrics to teach singing with beautiful and accurate movements that express the content of the song, this will not only help children understand and master the lyrics, but also lay the foundation for emotional singing.
1. Use rhythm to feel the pitch of the sound
In teaching, I combine the psychological characteristics of children who love to move and love to perform, so that children can use rhythm to feel the pitch of the sound. I play a melody with distinct high and low levels, and ask the children to use movements to express the high and low of the melody. Ask the children to raise their hands high and tap lightly to express the high notes, and to squat down and stomp their feet heavily to express the low notes of the melody. Let the children practice some simple songs with rhythm first. Melody, and then from easy to difficult, until you get to the more difficult melody. In this way, they have a more vivid contrasting perception of the pitch of the sound.
2. Use rhythm to feel the length of sounds
Children have limited calculation ability. If they use rhythm to feel the length of sounds, it will be easier for children to understand and master it. For example: when recognizing quarter notes, let the children do the jumping movements of a small frog, jumping once per beat, and shouting "croak" every time they jump. After passing the rhythm, explain the quarter notes so that the children can easily understand the length of the quarter notes.
3. Use rhythm to feel the strength of the sound
When explaining the knowledge of the strength of the sound, children are required to use movements to express the strength of the sound, so that the children can follow the strength of the sound. When the sound is weak, make corresponding movements; when the sound is strong, make movements with a relatively large range of motion. When the tone is weak, do it with a larger amplitude. This is used to enhance children's perception of the strength of the sound. For example: in "March of the Lion King", ask children to imitate the lion king walking from far to near, and the sound of footsteps from weak to strong. Invite the children to move from small to large according to the intensity of the music.
Another example: when a child performs the rhythm according to the intensity of the drumming sound, when the drumming sound is strong, the child is required to clap his hands and do a small running motion with his feet. When the drumming sound is weak, he puts his hands on his back, his feet do not move, and his head swings from side to side according to the music. . Another example: Sing "National Flag, National Flag, So Beautiful" and let the children make corresponding actions on their own. Children in the same seat clap each other's hands when the sound is strong, and tap their palms when the sound is weak. In this way, the children are interested and can perceive the strength of the sound.
4. Use rhythm to familiarize yourself with the connotation of the song
For example, when teaching the song "Learn to Be a People's Liberation Army", the teacher will teach the movements according to the content of the lyrics. While singing the lyrics, perform a series of actions such as beating gongs, drums, and trumpets. Because the movements vividly display the content of the lyrics, it not only activates the classroom atmosphere, but also increases children's interest. The children sang and performed at the same time, and did not feel tired after singing it over and over again. Not only did the children quickly master the lyrics, but they also sang the song emotionally while performing it.
3. Combine a variety of means to allow children to learn happily
1. Carry out listening exercises in games
Listening teaching cannot be ignored in music teaching It is an important means to develop children's musical hearing. Because listening to music is relatively abstract and boring, children are often not very interested. In order to stimulate students' interest in learning, teachers use the psychological characteristics of children to play games and organize children to play listening games together. For example, when listening to the pentatonic scale, the teacher divided the whole class of children into five groups. The puppy represents the "1" sound, the kitten represents the "2" sound, the piglet represents the "3" sound, the lamb represents the "5" sound, and the chicken represents the "6" sound. Which group of sounds does the teacher play on the piano? , which group of children stood up and imitated the sounds of small animals according to their pitch.
2. Experience the artistic conception of songs in the natural environment
Teachers should pay attention to children's life experience and emotional experience, stimulate interest in learning, and deepen their understanding of the content and performance of musical works. Therefore, in order for children to understand the content of the songs, teachers must be good at using children's lives when asking questions and inspiring them, starting from the actual life of children and combining it with their life experiences. When teaching and singing the song "Cloud", if children are asked to sit in the classroom and learn to sing, all they see is the teacher's face and the white walls around them, then what passion will they have to sing? So, I took them into nature and led the children to observe the white clouds in the blue sky. The real scenery inspired them to want to sing and gave them the desire to sing. Then on the green lawn, the teacher first spoke from his heart I sang the song "Cloud" in my heart, and the children also sang along with it. After the singing session, I asked a question? Besides white clouds, do you know any other clouds? (Dark clouds, burning clouds, etc.), and then inspire children to use natural scientific knowledge to describe the formation and phenomena of various clouds, and express their emotions towards various clouds, etc. In this atmosphere created jointly by teachers and students, children also have a further emotional understanding of various clouds and life.
3. Enjoy the emotions of songs during performances
Children are active and restless, and they will make movements unconsciously when singing or listening to music. For example, sitting incorrectly, shaking one's head, or even dancing are natural expressions of children's instincts. Therefore, using rhythmic song performances in music teaching can not only stimulate children's interest, mobilize children's enthusiasm, enhance the rhythm of music and coordination of movements, but also It can bring out students' creativity and is also an important way for children to express their understanding and feelings of musical works. For example: when teaching the song "Snowflakes Piao", I created opportunities for children to perform songs, allowing students to create their own movements and divide them into groups. Then combine the good moves into a groove mix. Perform in groups. In this way, it not only satisfies their desire to participate in the performance, but also expresses their own emotional experience of the musical works, and also gives them the joy of success, because they all made up the movements themselves. Therefore, by using rhythm, children can fully enjoy the beauty of melody and the joy of group activities.
4. Feel the content of the song through audio-visual listening
“Music is the most emotional art.” In music teaching, we must strive to organically unify the emotion and form of music. . The use of audio-visual media enables children to not only be emotionally cultivated, but also gain training in formal skills. The aesthetic quality of music has also been comprehensively improved. For example: when teaching the song "Painter", I used multimedia technology to set up a "music doll" home. Wonderful and beautiful music can be heard every day, allowing children to listen carefully to the sound and make decisions in terms of rhythm. Reaction (reading or shooting) stimulates children's aesthetic taste. The song depicts the happy scene of the painter at work. I used multimedia to reproduce this situation to give the children a real experience of being close to the painter. I also guided the children to imitate the "painter" and extract different rhythms from the painter's movements. , making children become the main subjects of learning in the activities of imitating roles, thus laying the foundation for understanding songs and mastering skills. This not only creates the best classroom atmosphere, but also enables Youru's soul to be cultivated in beautiful scenes, and in the emotional cultivation, he can experience the rhythm, so that children's musical quality has also been comprehensively improved.
The cultivation of interest does not happen overnight. It requires long-term irrigation and infiltration by our teachers to form.
"Life is like a mirror. If you smile at him, he will smile at you." The same goes for students. As teachers, today when the new curriculum is implemented, we should leave the most beautiful smiles to students and the deepest care to them. For students, use various means and educational forms to cultivate children's interest in music learning.