Dance is one of the educational contents of kindergarten music. It is a form of expressing the image of music through movements and gestures according to the nature of the music and accompaniment of the music. Dance is a favorite activity for young children. We can often see that when children hear beautiful and melodious music, they will involuntarily jump, twist and dance. Children will have an instinctive reaction to dance. After the age of 3, children's movements enter the initial stage of differentiation and become increasingly refined and mature, which enhances their interest in learning dance. However, they are restricted by their own music perception ability, performance ability, knowledge and experience, etc., and require adults to use games and other methods to learn dance. This is a way to get an initial taste of dance. The "Outline" also states that early childhood dance education is one of the indispensable and important ways to achieve comprehensive enlightenment of children's artistic quality. However, due to the influence of traditional educational concepts and insufficient understanding of children's age characteristics and development patterns, there are still some misunderstandings in early childhood dance education as follows. 1. One-sided pursuit of learning dance skills, emphasizing dance movement skills, and blindly requiring children to undergo boring training. This is not conducive to children's physical and mental development, nor can it stimulate children's interest in dance, and may even cause tension between teachers and students. 2. Teachers look at children’s dance and design dance movements too much from an adult perspective. They ignore children’s active participation in activities and fail to stimulate children’s imagination, creativity and desire to actively explore. Moreover, if the movements designed by teachers are not based on children’s age, Based on its characteristics and development possibilities, young children can easily be injured. 3. In family education, parents themselves lack dance knowledge, have low dance ability, and lack correct educational concepts, neglecting the cultivation of young children's dance. Many parents believe that it is useless and a waste of time for young children to participate in dance activities. It is better to learn other knowledge and skills. This leads to various misunderstandings in current dance education. So how should we position children's dance so that children's dance is based on children's development, promotes the formation of children's healthy personality, focuses on the process of activities, emphasizes the initiative and enthusiasm of children's activities, and makes children's dance education more positive, orderly and all-round. , What about healthy development? I think first of all we should have a correct understanding of the goals. Based on the "Outline", we summarize the goals in the following aspects: 1. Be able to perceive dance music, understand dance content, feel dance movements, experience dance fun, and try to be creative Movement performance, dance movements can meet the emotional requirements and expression methods of music. 2. Like to participate in dance activities, embody the joy of dance activities, proactively use body movements to explore and express music, and be able to cooperate with others to enhance interest in dance activities. 3. Able to control one's body movements well, master the use of simple props, and communicate with others using movements and expressions. Now I will explain how I teach kindergarten dance from the following points. 1. Material selection. When choosing dance teaching materials for young children, you should follow the principle of starting from easy to difficult, from simple to complex, and step by step. Children at different ages have different physiological and psychological characteristics, as well as actual movement development and acceptance levels. Children's attention is easy to shift, they are curious, they are easy to fantasize, and they like to imitate. Therefore, the content of teaching materials is suitable for children's age characteristics, so that they can be adopted by children. It is understood that in order to overcome the adult tendency, the dance movements should be concise, lively and vivid, so as to stimulate children's interest in learning dance. When I teach dance to young children, I first tell the dance content into stories to help the children understand the content of the dance, and encourage the children to dance to creatively express various dance images. For example: for the small class dance "Picking Apples", I made up a story line at the beginning to stimulate the children's interest, let the children know what role they play in the dance, and express themselves as the fruit farmer aunt. When I dance this dance, I feel very happy and have a sense of accomplishment. I feel like I have a good harvest of apples. In terms of music, we should choose music with smooth and smooth melody, vivid lyrics, informative and interesting music that can inspire children's association and imagination of dance. For example, when conducting step-by-step teaching in the middle class, we chose music such as animal imitation music, birds flying and flying airplanes, so that children can cooperate with the movements of their upper limbs and bodies. Children are like birds and airplanes flying in the blue sky, freely Boldly perform different actions, which not only achieves the teaching effect, but also allows children to create their own actions, germinating children's innovative consciousness. 2. Carry out dance teaching creatively. 1. Interest-based teaching method. Interest is an important psychological factor that generates learning motivation. It is an emotional intention that promotes children to actively explore. It refers to a special attitude towards the real world and a positive cognitive tendency and tendency towards learning. Emotional state. Interest is the teacher, the driving force for learning, and the prerequisite for children to actively explore. Music is the soul of dance, and music and dance are a unity that expresses and promotes each other. Children like music very much. Music can bring them pleasant and beautiful emotional experiences. Appropriate and continuous provision of appropriate musical stimulation to children can stimulate children's enthusiasm for dancing, and they will perform dance performances with great interest. Over time, , along with music, they can boldly express themselves and gradually develop an interest in participating in dance activities, so that their dance talents and creative potential can be fully utilized. 2. Life-oriented teaching. my country's great early childhood educator Chen Heqin pointed out: Generally healthy children can sing and express the rhythm of dance whether they are playing, walking, working, or studying.

Yes, this requires us to observe and guide children randomly in life, so that children will show special interests and emotions through music activities from nature and life, thus meeting the children's needs for self-expression and improving their abilities. Ability, enriching children's lives will result in a learning effect that is twice the result with half the effort. (1) Integrate music into children’s daily life. When coming to the kindergarten, some soft and pleasant world famous songs are played in the classroom, so that the children can enter a quiet, comfortable music and art environment as soon as they enter the kindergarten. Some suitable piano music is played during naps and lunches to cultivate the children's sentiments and deepen their experience and understanding of music. Understand, shorten the distance between music and children, let music come closer to children's lives, and let music inspire children's interest in dance creation. (2) Create an environment for children to perform in music. For example: in regional activities, we set up a small stage with different headdresses, ribbons, fans, age-appropriate rhythm instruments, and play different styles of music, allowing children to perform freely, create freely, and experience the joy of dancing to the music. Fun, cultivating children's dance activity ability and interest in dance. 3. Emotional teaching. Emotion is the catalyst of education. Esthetician Shi Dongchang once said: Beauty is the most emotional characteristic. The cultivation of people by art starts from the cultivation of emotions. It requires moving people with emotion, causing people to experience the excitement of noble emotions and the ups and downs of thinking, and gradually feel beauty, appreciate beauty, express beauty and create beauty. Therefore, In the teaching of children's dance, we first grasp the word "love", promote the physical and mental development of children through the harmonious environment between teachers and students, and achieve the purpose of music education. (1) As a teacher, you should be rich in emotions. In dance creation, teachers’ true feelings can strongly infect children and stimulate their creative enthusiasm. First of all, teachers should establish an equal and harmonious teacher-student relationship with children, and only in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere can children's enthusiasm for dance be stimulated; secondly, in the process of guiding children to create, teachers should use passionate eyes, movements, and expressions To strongly infect young children. For example, in the activity of creating and choreographing the dance "Clay Doll", the teacher must first turn himself into a cute clay doll, and the funny dance steps, naughty eyes, and naughty crying must be vividly expressed, so that the children can be immersed in the scene. I felt that I was among a group of clay dolls, and I unknowingly turned into a naughty clay doll. The movements and expressions of the clay dolls were naturally brewed and expressed. (2) Let children learn to understand and express emotions. In my usual dance creation teaching, I conduct in-depth research and analysis on every song for children to create dances, so that children can understand the emotional content expressed in each song, and require children to be integrated in dance creation. into these emotions. For example, when I created the dance of the song "My Good Mother", I analyzed the mother's tenderness and amiability expressed in it based on the lyrics, as well as the children's love, respect, attachment and other emotions for their mother. In the eyes of the child, it is shown one by one through the actions of the child towards the mother. In order to strengthen the expression of these emotions, I require children to first use their eyes and expressions to express the emotions between mother and child when singing songs, and then imagine and create. This not only allows the children to experience the appeal of the song, but also allows them to better understand the emotions the song gives them. With such emotional experience, the dances created by the children will be more vital. 4. Game-based teaching. Games are children’s favorite activities, and dance has an important connection with games. Many music games and performance games in kindergartens are also closely related to dance. Game method is a method of tutoring using the form and tone of games. Dance learning should also be a game activity and a kind of entertainment. For example, when learning a duck to walk, the teacher can play the mother duck and let the children be duck babies. Invite the baby duck to learn skills from the mother duck, and also wear headgear or costumes. There are also small steps, which can be practiced by the mother chicken with the chicks; jumping steps, practiced by the mother rabbit with the baby rabbits, etc. This method can arouse the interest of children, improve their enthusiasm for learning, and make children learn easily, happily and naturally. Therefore, when young children learn dance, they can also make full use of the magic weapon of games. First, let children experience happiness in learning, then stimulate their interest in further learning, and promote the coordination of movements and bodies. 3. Creation. (1) Let children use their imagination to create creative actions. Music activities are inseparable from imagination, and dance itself can provide people with a vast world of imagination. Children have rich creativity and sensitive thinking abilities. How to let children spread their wings and imagine freely and boldly in this vast world. First, let the children become familiar with the content of the song, let them know what kind of music it is, and master its rhythm, meaning, etc.

For example, when teaching children to compose "Dili Dili", let the children become familiar with the melody and content of the song, know that this music happily expresses the child's love for spring, and then guide the children to perform the composing actions, and also create for the children A good scene; for example, before teaching children to dance "Butterfly", I first use a slide to tell the children about a beautiful little girl wearing a colorful skirt. When she appeared in the kindergarten, all the children in the garden looked like butterflies. They also flew to the colorful skirt and danced beside it... The teacher used beautiful slides, beautiful language, and vivid descriptions to bring everyone into the scene. The children seemed to all come to the colorful skirt and dance beside it. , let everyone feel the active and happy atmosphere brought by the colorful skirt to the flowers and butterflies, and finally let the children master the basic movements of dance, and guide the children to change the basic movements into many similar but different movements; in the large class In the "Fruit Picking Dance", children are inspired to create movements by imagining seeing, picking, tasting, and experiencing the joy of harvest in a fruit orchard; in the rehearsal group dance "Little Star", children are inspired to expand their imagination and imagine flying. The movements of shaking hands when making friends with little stars in space, the movements of twinkling stars, the hide-and-seek movements of playing with little stars, etc., add a lot of interest to the dance. (2) During the creative process, teachers should provide timely evaluation to help children build self-confidence and encourage children to create boldly. A child's self-esteem cannot be harmed in the slightest. During the dance creation, we always pay attention to protecting the budding self-esteem of the children. We often ask children who have created novel moves to show them to other children, so that the children can realize that the teacher is also paying attention to my moves. Maybe I will be the next person to demonstrate. This not only cultivates the children's self-confidence but also allows them to experience the joy of success. At the same time, other children are also encouraged to make bold moves like them. In this way, children's sense of innovation will be stronger and more lasting.

Kindergarten is a period when children’s artistic talents begin to emerge and their personalities begin to form. Teaching music and dance classes in kindergarten is of great significance.

Children receive the influence of beauty from an early age and experience, appreciate and create beauty in many aspects, thereby laying a solid foundation for the formation of correct aesthetics and good aesthetic ability