In today's society that attaches importance to quality education, more and more kindergartens realize the important role of art education in developing children's intelligence, cultivating children's sentiment, stimulating children's self-confidence and exercising children's will. Therefore, it is necessary for us to try to educate and develop children through artistic enlightenment, so that they can grow up healthily, harmoniously and comprehensively.
Music is an art, with its special means of artistic expression, and it is an important part of the splendid culture of mankind. Educator Chen Heqin has long found that music education plays an important role in children's development. He said: Kindergartens should have a musical environment, cultivate their interest in music and develop their music appreciation ability and skills. It is necessary to guide children to interact with the environment in an artistic environment and fully stimulate their initiative and enthusiasm, so as to better cultivate and improve their ability to feel, understand, experience and express music. What are your interests? Usually, interest refers to a person's psychological tendency to know and master something, which has positive emotional color. So how to stimulate children's interest in music?
First, according to children's age characteristics, adopt various methods for teaching.
Interest is the motivation for children to learn music. Only when children are interested will they have the desire to actively learn and explore. It is human nature to love music. Interesting music activities can stimulate children's desire to learn, make them have positive and happy emotions, give full play to their imagination and show their different feelings and creations. First of all, the choice of teaching content should conform to children's physical and mental development and closely connect with children's life reality. In the teaching process, teachers should carefully select some music with distinctive features and easy to be accepted by children. Different music appearing in different occasions can effectively stimulate children's interest, fully mobilize their enthusiasm for learning and stimulate their desire for learning. The method is vivid and novel. For example, choose a warm disco when exercising; Lively piano music was chosen in the game ... touching melody and lively rhythm made children eager to try, and their interest in participating in activities suddenly increased. If the teacher stiffly asks the children to sing some obscure songs, the children can't understand them at all, and they can't resonate emotionally. Children are innocent and lovely, lively and active, and have no good self-control ability. Therefore, first of all, we should use various vivid methods such as alternating movements and blending scenes to let children discover, feel, understand, appreciate and express music in the interesting practice of moving, listening, watching, distinguishing and singing.
For example, in the music activities of "walking" for the children in the middle class, children can read aloud with nursery rhymes and make sounds symbolizing the walking of rabbits, deer and ducklings, so that children can quickly master the basic rhythm of syncopation. For another example, in the "congratulations" activities, children can perform according to the rhythm of songs, and some children can give new year greetings to others, with some firecrackers and lanterns, so that children can learn this singing method in an interested atmosphere.
Second, provide opportunities for appreciation and cultivate children's interest in listening to music.
Young children are young, but they are very receptive. It can be said that every child has a pair of musical ears. Sensitive hearing is the premise of perceiving music. Teachers must let children start with hearing, let children listen more and feel and understand music by themselves. Therefore, using all kinds of interesting musical means can stimulate children's desire to listen to music, arouse children's interest in listening to music, cultivate children's listening habits, and thus distinguish the subtle differences in music. It is necessary to create a world of appreciation for children and let them touch music as much as possible. Through various channels, such as teachers' performances and singing, tape recorders, vcd, computers, etc. Children can enjoy and listen to melodious songs and beautiful melodies, which are combined into moving pictures in each child's mind, bringing children into a poetic artistic conception and making them often hum along involuntarily. At the same time, I also make proper use of some spare time, such as playing music every morning when children come to kindergarten one after another, before taking a nap, before eating and before leaving the garden, so that children can live in music, make their lives full of music and stimulate their interest in listening to music. Children are close to and familiar with music, so they like music and experience it. The seeds of music are buried in children's hearts. Children nowadays will listen to music as soon as they hear it, and enjoy it.
Third, use a variety of sensory language to add unique interest to music activities.
1. Gesture: Teachers' gestures are used instead of language, which can produce more effective effects without sound than with sound. For example, in small class music activities, children's emotions can be well aroused by vividly imitating the gestures of various animals, especially when singing and percussion, it is easier and more direct to convey and express their inner feelings to children in time, so as to enter the connotation of songs through gestures. Therefore, simple gestures (including commands) can enlighten and stimulate children's emotions, unify their rhythm and speed, and thus arouse the emotional resonance between teachers and children.
2. Body language: Body language is transmitted to children through teachers' gestures and expressions, which can have the effect of "however, I feel the harmonious heartbeat of the sacred unicorn". Generally speaking, it is mainly the expression of eyes and face, which reveals and conveys the inner feelings to children in silent language. That kind of nervous and firm eyes and smiling face can make children feel passionate and energetic. For example, when enjoying the song "March of the Lion King", the teacher's bright eyes and glowing posture can quickly infect children and let them fully feel the expression of the Lion King. Teachers should pay attention to using friendly and natural eyes and expressions when teaching songs such as "lullaby".
Another example is singing lively songs, such as "Golden Snake Dancing" and "Happy New Year". Teachers can stimulate children's inner feelings with childlike smiles and eyes, blend with teachers' emotions, sing with expressions and perform rhythmically with the rhythm of music, thus achieving better teaching results.
4. Charming environment layout to stimulate children's interest in learning to sing.
Autumn is coming, the activity room is covered with autumn theme wall decorations, the classroom is covered with golden leaves, and the walls are covered with stickers of children's leaves. Thus, in the music education activities, the song "Little Leaves" was newly released. During the activity, the children involuntarily turned to look at their favorite "leaves". At this time, I seized the opportunity to guide them to learn to sing under the wall decoration covered with leaves. When singing, the children were full of enthusiasm and interest, and soon learned the songs. At this time, on the basis of being familiar with the songs, the children involuntarily wrote their own movements for the songs and made up the movements of falling leaves. The children easily mastered the lyrics unconsciously and learned new songs with great interest. I also wrote the action of this song, and I am going to be active in the performance area. Children feel the beauty and joy of singing in charming wall decorations, and express their feelings with body language. Inspire children's love for songs in the rich and varied music world.
Fifth, give children opportunities for self-expression and expression.
The whole art of preschool education is to cultivate children's interest in learning and stimulate their initiative in seeking knowledge. Only when children need it can teachers get the best results. In the past music education, teachers often ignored children's initiative and enthusiasm, did not give them enough free space, and paid too much attention to skill training. For example, when learning rhythm, teachers teach dance movements over and over again, and children mechanically repeat learning, which makes the original good music activities become boring action training, and children's interest decreases with the repeated "wrong" sounds. In fact, in teaching, as long as children's desire to express themselves is fully mobilized, and they are allowed to explore in self-writing, generate motivation and self-confidence, and generate interest in learning, their curiosity and thirst for knowledge will be developed.
Music is an inseparable partner of children. Children's development needs music, and music can promote their all-round development. Creating a good musical environment for children is to lay a good foundation for the development of children's musical potential. It can make children's life full of music and improve their musical intelligence. Children can understand music, understand music and perform music bit by bit in the powerful art of music. In short, in the implementation of autonomous learning in music teaching, we should persist in cultivating children's interest, choose some interesting and fun teaching methods, let children listen more and sing more, and let them learn, understand, perceive and express music in a musical environment. Really give children a stage to show, an opportunity to exercise and a successful experience. Let children jump from the "passive role" of education and teaching to the "active role" and become the main body of learning activities.
Dalklow has a famous saying: "The understanding of music is not so much an intellectual process as an emotional process". We should constantly improve children's interest, integrate deep feelings into music teaching, stimulate children's aesthetic feeling through the artistic image of music, let them love and integrate into music, let us explore together, give full play to the unique function of music education, and promote the all-round and harmonious development of children's body and mind.