Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings. |
The Kindergarten students enthusiastically sing a variety of traditional songs and games, discovering ways to control their
singing voices by matching the pitch of my recorder or guitar. They are always excited as we explore beat and rhythm through body movement and with hand drums, larger drums, maracas, claves, woodblocks, etc. in call and response songs like John the Rabbit, Did You Feed My Cow, and Green, Green Rocky. First use of the mallet instruments (xylophones, metalophones and glockenspiels) will soon follow. Movement games such as Dr.Knickerbocker, The Jackfish, and Sally Go Round the Sun, exercise social skills, as well as internalizing a sense of beat and phrasing. Integration of alphabet and number and other classroom skills are developed through games, picture books, and activities in a playful atmosphere. As they study a new letter of the alphabet in their classroom, they explore technique on an instrument whose name begins with that letter. For instance, as they study a new letter of the alphabet in their classroom, they explore technique on an instrument whose name begins with that letter. here in music |