In today's society that attaches great importance to quality education, more and more kindergartens realize that art education plays a decisive role in developing children's intelligence, cultivating children's sentiments, stimulating children's self-confidence, and exercising children's will. . We also clearly recognize the lifelong benefits that art can have on a person’s physical and psychological conditioning. Therefore, it is necessary for us to try to educate and develop children through their artistic enlightenment so that they can grow up healthily, harmoniously and comprehensively. The new "Outline" proposes that the goal of art is to enrich children's emotions and cultivate the initial taste and ability to feel and express beauty. And whether this is really happening in real-life teaching? I will discuss it based on the actual music teaching I observed.

1. The effectiveness of music activities in kindergartens and the importance of music activities.

1. Effectiveness of development. The external display characteristics in individual music activities refer to whether the activity is consistent with the teaching objectives, whether the focus of the teaching objectives is correct and scientific, and whether it reflects the impact on the children. Fun to cultivate.

2. The so-called necessity of effectiveness in education requires that we first know the importance of music activities, through which children can develop emotions and aesthetics and promote the development of cognitive abilities. When children participate in performances and hands-on activities During the practical experience, one's own artistic imagination is realized, the children's interpersonal communication skills are cultivated, and the children's basic musical abilities are developed. Since music education plays so many roles in the healthy development of young children. Then every music activity organized by teachers should touch children's hearts, arouse children's emotional excitement, accumulate children's music skills, cultivate children's artistic sentiment, and be conducive to the cultivation of other abilities. Therefore, we propose music activities It should be carried out effectively so that children are willing to learn and can freely use their imagination and creativity.

2. There is a serious lag in music activities in kindergartens.

Music education is an education that delights children's body and mind. Its education is not as direct as verbal expressions, but like spring rain that penetrates into children's inner emotions and souls bit by bit, edifying and infecting them. effect. However, education cannot keep up with new ideas, and the phenomenon of "teaching others to learn and teaching others to do" can be seen everywhere.

Phenomenon 1. In music teaching activities, teachers only care about whether children can sing songs, whether the rhythm of the band is neat, and whether the dance movements are consistent with what the teacher teaches. But most of the results are that when the children are taught the first time, they are still a little interested, but the second time they start laughing and laughing, and their attention is distracted. The reason is that the teacher has not really become an activist and supporter of the children's independent music activities. , the explorer is just an orderer, conductor, and supervisor. Teachers rarely consider how to help children gain a sense of success in activities, enhance self-confidence, stimulate interest, and help form a good and correct self-concept. Teachers do not understand the children and do not observe their needs. They only blindly lead the children, and the children are always in a passive position.

Phenomenon 2. When choosing music themes, children’s physical and mental development and actual needs are ignored, and careful selection is ignored. For example, for a song called "Greater China", children were asked to learn to sing it without any modifications. The children sang hysterically, and they didn't know where to take a breath. They were all gasping for air. Seeing this, I feel really sad for these children. Many teachers one-sidedly believe that children’s music should keep up with modern trends. Therefore, when choosing children's music, it is not considered whether the selected music is suitable for the children, whether the range of the music is suitable for the children, and even if the music content is selected, it will not deal with which type to focus on for teaching. It might not be necessary if this song "Greater China" is taught in the form of appreciation and percussion.

Phenomenon 3. Teaching goal setting cannot reflect children’s subjectivity. For a long time, my country's early childhood music education has mainly adopted the target teaching model. The target plays a guiding role in the selection, organization, implementation and evaluation of the curriculum, dominating the entire teaching process. The content of music education is divided into singing, rhythmic dance, music games, appreciation activities, percussion teaching, etc., which easily leads to unclear key teaching logic, and teachers naturally focus on single skill training. Because the teaching methods are single and rigid, it is difficult to reflect the aesthetic function of music education. In fact, what children feel in music activities and how they experience the beauty of music are often ignored. This inhibits young children's aesthetic emotions. If children cannot express their emotions freely, their aesthetic initiative and creativity will inevitably be lost. The learning process of children will be ignored, and the cultivation of children's innovative abilities will not be paid attention to.

Phenomenon 4. "Heavy on the beginning and light on the tail" of music, many teachers attach great importance to situational introduction when teaching. The beginning part is very attractive, and the preparation of teaching aids is novel and unique, but the activity will suddenly become disconnected as the activity continues, and the use of props The rate is low, there is no connection between before and after.

3. How to reflect the effectiveness in music activities.

In music activities, whether the selection of teaching materials is in line with age characteristics, the learning focused on the content of music activities must be scientifically and reasonably arranged, and the development of each music theme such as rhythm, singing, appreciation, games and other music types must be carried out in the same way as other music types. Subjects are organically penetrated, and various types can also be combined with each other for learning. All principles are inseparable from helping children's all-round development.

1. Before the activity, it is necessary to choose teaching content suitable for children's learning.

There are many types of music teaching materials nowadays, which poses a difficult choice for teachers. The kindergarten teaching materials used in kindergartens in this city are also extremely rich in music themes, which requires teachers to collect more and find suitable ones for kindergartens. The teaching materials for all ages of large, medium and small schools are using the "Kindergarten Constructive Curriculum Guide", "Kindergarten Curriculum Guide" and provincial textbooks. When teachers choose a music activity, they must first be familiar with it, analyze the lesson plan, and arrange the learning focus scientifically. You can refer to the "Children's Music Education Activities Series - Song and Dance Activities", "Appreciating Music", "Percussion Instrument Performance Activities", "Rhythm Activities" edited by Teacher Xu Zhuoya and other music activity books by Teacher Xu, as well as the American "Music Garden" Music for ages 3-6. There are many characteristics that are suitable for today's children's playful and imaginative nature. Express yourself freely and integrate into music more harmoniously, such as "The Sun Is Out", which can mobilize children's body movements very well, so that children can naturally gain interest in singing and experience the fun of performance during the performance. This song also It can be a good preparatory song for music activities, because the related lyrics and the stability of the four and four fingers allow children to enter the role more naturally and joyfully. The music in "Multiple Music Garden" has a strong sense of rhythm and is life-oriented. It can be integrated into children's life experience and use their creativity to select appropriate teaching content. You can also choose some music suitable for young children from Chinese music with ethnic characteristics. Carry out effective organization, classify rhythmic activities, appreciation, percussion, and singing activities, and arrange them reasonably for each age group and each semester. Various teaching contents should be carried out in conjunction with the theme, but it should not be restricted by theme teaching. When it is suitable for theme education, attention should be paid to whether it can bring interest and happiness to children.

2. The teaching objectives should reflect that children are the main body and focus on the cultivation of interests.

The setting of goals should be carried out specifically during the activity. Teachers should give them sufficient free space to move, pay attention to children's initiative and enthusiasm, mobilize children's desire for expression, and allow them to write and create their own ideas. Explore, develop a sense of confidence, gain the pleasure of performing and the interest in learning.

3. Pay attention to the following during the teaching process:

(1) Use lively language intervention.

After the music content suitable for young children is determined, how can teachers effectively carry it out in the activities? Issues involved include whether the teacher's teaching methods are vivid, reasonable and interesting.

During the teaching process, the teacher’s lively and lively language method immediately attracted the children’s attention, and then they entered a situation-oriented scene, such as the song "Thumbs" in the small class. The teacher first introduced the fingers in a witty way The members of the group have a humorous tone without any auxiliary props. They use exaggerated language to impress the children. It is so interesting to know that the thumbs are hidden. They capture the hearts of the children and then perform a beautiful a cappella song: Thumbs up, thumbs up, you are there. where? Then the thumb came out slowly and sang: I am here, I am here, are you okay? At this point in the activity, the teacher's teaching language is very contagious. It can sometimes outshine some colorful pictures and cute teaching aids. Therefore, teachers are more likely to use lively language in music activities, which will bring you infinite ease in teaching and also bring enthusiasm and initiative to children's music learning.

(2) Give children space and opportunities to imagine and create.

Try to give every child a chance to move during music activities. Physical movement is a child’s instinct. If the music is very beautiful and touching, and the child has the desire to move, if the teacher does not arrange physical movements, Creation will kill children's nature. Once I went to a class and a new teacher taught "Willow Tree Girl", which is a beautiful and beautiful song in three beats. When the children finished listening to the song, the teacher showed the children a chart to help them understand and memorize the lyrics. , although the new teacher blindly emphasized the beauty of this piece of music, what was presented to everyone during the entire activity was: the unique design of the entire map helped the children remember the lyrics, and the teacher asked the children to sing the songs separately for boys and girls, and they were free to choose the form of singing. There is no body language, and it seems that the children have little interest in learning. Although the results of the activity show that the children can sing this song, can such teaching be conducive to the cultivation of children's musical ability? As a result, I went to that class to conduct a survey and found that none of the children enjoyed singing "Willow Girl" after the activity. After listening to this activity, I carried out music activities in my class using the same content and the same map. The difference was that using After completing the map to help the children become familiar with the lyrics, I fully let the children imagine how the willow tree girl will show her beauty, so that every child can move. Feel the beauty of "Willow Tree Girl" again in the self-created movements. After the activity, the children couldn't help but sing "Willow Tree Girl, the braids are long...". Although these comparisons are not very scientific, they can basically illustrate the importance of music in music. During activities, teachers should be good at creating body movements or good at encouraging children's movement performance. This will greatly improve the effectiveness of teaching. In rhythmic activities and appreciation activities, the addition of body movements is a must. The worst fear is that teachers will Ignore its charm, and many teachers will greatly discount it in actual teaching. You must know that the whole process of using movement and silence in activities, blending scenes to express music is the whole process of children enjoying the activity.

We must follow the rules of children's movement participation in learning, because children learn from movements. Musical activities with rhythm and cheerful emotions enhance the fun and pleasant feeling of movements, and movements It promotes the development of musical ability, so body movements can be created in music activities. As a teacher, you should actively guide children to move together. Dalcroze's body rhythm theory focuses on experiencing music through movements and feeling the movement and performance of the body, turning abstract musical elements into visible physical activities.

(3) Pay attention to the importance of listening and the learning of rhythm.

Many music activities should focus on the rhythm and melody of music. Give children a certain amount of time to listen to music and feel the music. Through their own insights, they can experience the first feeling that music gives them, such as percussion. In the music activity "Happy Wordy", only with a certain understanding of music can children create suitable percussion instruments to play. Then listening to music is the only way to carry out the activity. The Protestant song "Wind Finds Mother" is a very beautiful and touching piece of music. After listening to the teacher's touching a cappella singing, the children's feelings about the lyrics and music style became more accurate. During the singing activities, accurate Developing singing ability is not an easy task for most children. As I mentioned before, I heard many children singing out of tune. Since this phenomenon is common, I wonder if effective listening is missing in music activities. Part of this is to use hearing to understand and enjoy the beauty of music. Whether it is piano, tape accompaniment or singing by teachers and children, children must actively appreciate it, just like when celebrating a child's birthday, all the children sing "Birthday" to the birthday boy. "Happy" song, but it sang three or four different pitches. At this time, the teacher asked the children to calm down and listen to individual children singing. The children immediately realized the crux of the problem, so the teacher asked the children to sing along one by one. , slowly, everyone is on the same tune. It can be seen that listening to other people's voices plays a huge role in the cultivation of musical ability, and every teacher cannot ignore its ability.

Dalcroz's body rhythm theory believes that rhythm is the most powerful element in music. Kodaly proposed that rhythm is the main aspect of perception and learning in kindergarten music education. When learning music rhythm, it is always combined with daily life experience and imitates the sounds of various animals or various regular sounds in life, such as The song "Walking on Stilts" expresses the lively scene of celebrating the New Year in the first month. While the children experience the joyful atmosphere of the festival, various small animals are used to celebrate the New Year and the introduction is performed in the fixed rhythm pattern ×× ×/×× ×/ and ×× The sounds or movement exercises of ××/×× ××/×× ×/ not only enhance the interest of music learning, but also improve children’s proficiency in rhythm. For example, in the two-part chorus "Big Bell and Small Watch" activity, the rhythmic relationship between the two is sharply contrasted. How can children better master the rhythm patterns of the two? Big Bell ×○×○ / ×○ ×○ / and Small Watch The rhythm pattern of ×× ××/ ×× ××/ ×× ××/ ×× or small puppets and other vivid images and rhythmic exercises, which lays an important foundation for resolving difficulties in learning two-part chorus. Therefore, teachers must have the ability to judge during music activities and arrange the teaching process reasonably according to the teaching content. Naturally integrating these elements into learning will allow children to learn effectively in music activities and enjoy learning.

(4) Pay attention to the development of gamification of music situations.

When designing music activities in kindergartens, teachers often like to make them more situational and life-like. This kind of design practice has proven to be beneficial to increasing children's interest and enhancing the fun of music, thereby promoting children's perception of music elements and improvement of musical abilities. For example, the song "Snail" is suitable for small class children to practice rhythm, and it is also highly game-friendly. Ask the children to hold hands and form a circle corresponding to one or two sections, slowly move towards the center, slowly curl up, squeeze together to experience happiness, and slowly retreat. The teacher leads the team to tighten the circle and walk into a snail shape. This is a very vivid game to assist singing. Increase the With the influence of music on young children, children in small classes will enjoy the fun of music tirelessly. For example, the music game "Loop" activity in the upper class has three sections, which can fully demonstrate the cooperation ability between three children. They sing their names and those of their companions in the circle, and the children quickly sing to each other during the game. With understanding and awareness. Game creation can also be added to many songs, such as "The Lost Little Flower Duck", "Ants Moving Beans" and other songs. Teachers can arrange game scenes to help children learn and understand the songs effectively.

In music teaching activities in kindergartens, teachers can carefully analyze the teaching content, design teaching skillfully, pay attention to the alternation of movement and stillness, guide children's imagination and creation based on children's actual preferences, and encourage children's active participation in a timely manner to improve children's With enthusiasm for learning, all studies will be enjoyable under the drive of interest in learning. If front-line teachers can take children's interests as the starting point when selecting materials, setting goals, and teaching, respect children's creative achievements, and prevent children from losing interest in music activities.