Interest is the best teacher, the driving force of creative activities and the prescription of cultivating ability. Therefore, to cultivate the learning ability of mentally retarded children, we should also start with the word "music" and start from their current ability level. The learning content should be lively and interesting, and the teaching methods should be varied and entertaining. When people are interested in something, they will take the initiative to understand it and concentrate on it in the process of understanding. To cultivate students' interest, we should adopt different teaching methods and means according to different teaching materials to arouse students' enthusiasm, mainly as follows:

First, the use of teaching AIDS to stimulate interest

For special children, it is especially useful to use teaching AIDS to stimulate interest. For example, when teaching the imitation actions of washing face, brushing teeth and combing hair in daily life, teachers will prepare teaching AIDS in advance: cut a small piece of cloth as a towel, make a small toothbrush and comb out of hard paper, and then choose a smaller doll. When teaching, the teacher hummed the music, held the above-mentioned teaching AIDS in the doll's hands, and did the actions of washing face, brushing teeth and combing hair one by one. This will not only arouse children's interest, but also let them see how to exercise and feel the rhythm of sports and music. For another example, when teaching frogs to jump, you can make a frog with movable thighs out of nitrocellulose paper and lead wire, and show the frog's jumping action by pulling the frog. When the students learn this movement, the big frog (held by the teacher) can jump with the children, and the students will be very happy. When teaching the rabbit to jump, the teacher used a rabbit puppet to demonstrate the rabbit jump with music in advance, and then led the children to learn the rabbit jump together.

Second, use the music activities of the game to arouse interest.

Gorky said: "Games are the way for children to know the world". For children with mental retardation. Games also play an important role. Music game is a game whose main purpose is to cultivate musical ability. Children with mental retardation enhance their sense of rhythm by listening, singing and speaking. Cultivate interest in oral singing, improve singing skills, improve the ability to distinguish the nature of music, promote the coordination of movements, and develop hearing, vision, memory, attention and thinking ability better and faster.

L, create situational game activities.

Children with mental retardation love sports and games. They grow up in games, learn and master music. The application of games in music teaching for mentally retarded children has changed the monotony of the original teaching methods and achieved good educational results. Situational teaching method, as a means of music teaching, aims to make students feel emotions in situations, stimulate students' interest in activities and arouse their enthusiasm for learning. Feel the music from it and cultivate students' artistic sentiment. The method of creating scenes is deeply loved by children with mental retardation because of its unique charm. For example, music games such as "The Eagle Catches the Chicken" can be understood by students, and it feels very realistic to play. The students wore the headdresses of eagles and chickens. Under the unified guidance of teachers, students can easily enter the role to play games. In order not to let T Eagle catch the chicken, we must unite closely to deal with the enemy together.