First, carry out music teaching activities according to children's physiological and psychological characteristics.
Kindergarten music teaching activities belong to the primary stage of music education. Teachers should choose more vivid teaching contents and adopt flexible teaching forms according to children's physiological and psychological characteristics, so as to stimulate children's curiosity and cultivate their interest in learning music. Games are children's favorite activities, and they will actively participate in interesting activities. Therefore, teachers can teach music in the form of game activities, so that children can learn music through hands-on, brains and oral games accompanied by music melody. At the same time, teachers should choose appropriate music and game activities according to children's age characteristics. For example, children in small classes are new to music and have no idea what music is. They like simple and lively rhythms and melodies. Teachers can design lively music game activities, such as learning the children's song "Walking". The lyrics are: "The little white rabbit walks and jumps, the duckling walks and shakes, the tortoise walks and crawls, and Xiaohua Mall walks quietly." Teachers can let children imitate the way these animals walk while singing, and then teachers can show pictures of other animals, let children talk about how these animals walk and imitate them. In such game activities, children can actively participate in it and take the initiative to speak and perform. While learning nursery rhymes, they also know some common sense of life. For another example, when the children's song "The Tail Song" is taught in middle school, the lyrics are: What is a flat tail? What tail bend? What tail looks like an umbrella? The tail of a duck is flat, the tail of a rooster is curved, and the tail of a squirrel is like an umbrella. What tail is long? What tail is short? What tail is like a fan? The monkey's tail is long, the rabbit's tail is short and the peacock's tail is like a fan. Teachers can let children know the shapes of different animal tails by guessing riddles, so as to understand the structure of this nursery rhyme, remember the melody of the music and prepare for the next nursery rhyme creation activities.
Second, carefully choose music teaching materials
An important step in effective music teaching for children is to choose suitable music textbooks, that is, music textbooks should be both educational and interesting, because interest is the best teacher and interesting textbooks can attract children's attention. Although many excellent music works have been selected in kindergarten textbooks, not every song is suitable for children's cognition. Some songs are too old, some lyrics are too complicated, and some songs have little connection with children's lives, which may affect children's understanding of music works. So what kind of music textbooks are suitable for children? In my opinion, as long as the content is healthy and interesting, songs that can bring happy emotional experience to children are suitable teaching materials.
The Guiding Outline of Kindergarten Education (Trial) points out: "Guide children to get in touch with beautiful people, things and things in the surrounding environment and life, enrich children's perceptual experience and aesthetic taste, and stimulate children's interest in expressing beauty and creating beauty." The content of children's music teaching, in addition to some excellent classic children's songs in textbooks, can also add some popular songs and film and television drama episodes that children are familiar with, such as Invisible Wings and Grandma's Penghu Bay. These songs can attract children's attention and stimulate their interest. In children's music teaching, teachers can appropriately adapt the melody and lyrics of these songs to make them catchy and easy to learn, so that children can learn music knowledge in a relaxed and happy atmosphere and improve their aesthetic ability. In the teaching process, teachers will understand the difficulties of children's learning, such as the span, pause and sound of vowels, as well as their feelings when singing, which can help them solve their learning difficulties. Therefore, kindergarten teachers should choose songs for children in a targeted way, so that children can become people who keep pace with the times.
Third, improve children's appreciation ability through music appreciation activities.
Music appreciation is a psychological process in which people think in images according to the development of music melody, and it is an important part of children's music education. However, children do not have the ability to appreciate independently, and they must rely on the guidance of lyrics and the enlightenment of teachers to complete the whole appreciation process. In music teaching, I usually guide children to appreciate music works in the following ways to improve their appreciation ability.
(1) Let children understand music through the teacher's explanation.
Children's first impressions of things are generally profound. When appreciating children's music works for the first time, teachers should try their best to make them have a beautiful and profound impression on music. This process should arouse children's interest, enliven their imagination and touch their emotions. For example, when enjoying the song Woodpecker, I asked the children to close their eyes and listen to the music, and followed the teacher's emotional music explanation, presenting a beautiful picture of woodpeckers treating fruit trees in their minds, and a beautiful picture of fruit trees flourishing after pest control, so that the children could not help but integrate into the music and feel the melody and artistic conception of music more deeply.
(b) Play music better through action demonstration.
For example, when I appreciate the music of Animal Carnival by San Sang, let the children listen to the music with movement and no noise for one or three times, and then I will observe their reaction. As a result, some children quickly show the movements of individual animals in music with actions. I seize the opportunity to encourage children to use their imagination, and boldly write their own actions with the changes of animal roles in music, so that children can perceive and express music while listening, thinking and doing.
(c) Better display of music through pictures.
For example, when I appreciate the song "Di Li, Di Li", on the basis of children's understanding of the song, I encourage them to imagine boldly and show all kinds of wonderful scenery about spring on paper with a brush, thus completing the process from abstract to concrete.
In short, the most important way to cultivate children's music literacy is kindergarten music teaching activities. However, we teachers should not confine children's music education to the classroom, but should introduce it into extracurricular activities and even penetrate into daily life. Outside the classroom, we should create more music learning environment for children, provide them with more opportunities for performance and exercise, and let them be accompanied by music in life, study, games and work, so as to make children's body and mind happy and relaxed.