How to Cultivate Children's Sense of Music Rhythm
Children in kindergarten especially like to beat things and make sounds, and they already have a certain sense of music rhythm. They can perform songs, simply tap and fiddle with musical instruments, and have a certain creative ability, but their perception of music rhythm is still very weak. How to cultivate children's sense of music rhythm? I try to do it from the following aspects: First, find the sound around me to train children's listening and stimulate their love for music rhythm. Children live in a world of sound, and the rhythm is everywhere. Ding's phone rings, bicycle rings, car horns, the ticking of small alarm clocks, the chirping of birds and the chirping of various small animals. All kinds of sounds have different rhythms, and "listening" is an important prerequisite for learning music. Guide children to listen to these sounds, imitate these sounds and play these rhythms. In the process of finding various rhythms in life, children are more interested in rhythm. Second, use all parts of the body to express rhythm and deepen children's perception of rhythm. Children especially like to use various parts of the body to express rhythm, such as clapping their hands, patting their shoulders, stamping their feet and singing while clapping their hands, so that children can express their feelings and understanding of rhythm with beautiful movements with and without music accompaniment. This kind of performance is free and flexible, and the teacher just guides them. For example, the small class "clap your hands and nod", the children clap their hands and nod while singing, and the children naturally clap their hands and nod with the festival; For example, the "robot" in the middle class moves rhythmically, and the children shake hands, walk, bend over and turn their heads, vividly showing the funny image of the robot. For example, in the "unlocking" game in the big class, children skillfully stretch out a finger to do the unlocking action, find a strong beat with the music, and unlock at the strong beat. Other children clap their hands and clap their legs to feel the strength of the music. At the same time, children develop their rhythm through unrestrained body movements. Third, use the objects around you to beat the rhythm and deepen the understanding of the rhythm. Children usually like to knock things with their hands. For example, when they get a children's picture book, they have to pat it with their hands. When they get a toy, they will also knock a few times to make a sound to feel that it is fun. Even when I eat, I will take out my spoon or chopsticks and knock on the small bowl. In order to cultivate children's sense of rhythm, I collected coconut milk bottles or some children's drink bottles, filled with corn, sand and leaves respectively, and let children play different rhythms with these things, especially loud beats and weak beats. For example, the song "Heavy Rain and Light Rain" in the middle class, I divided the whole class into two groups, one group took a bottle of corn kernels, the other group took a bottle of leaves, let the children explore the different performances of the two bottles, and play this song together to know whose voice is like heavy rain and whose voice is like light rain, so that the children can discover the wonderful rhythm in music. Fourth, use game activities to let children fully enjoy the beauty of rhythm. Children take games as their life, and games are the basic activities of kindergartens. In the game, encourage children to experience the emotions of music and the positive emotions caused by music activities, and enjoy the happiness of success, thus forming good study habits. For example, in the music game "Two Little Ducks" in a small class, children finally clap their hands and smack their mouths, and initially experience the fun of whispering with their companions. In the middle class game "Little Tadpole Looking for Mom", children sing and swim with the little tadpole. When they found mother frog at the end of the game, they were as happy as finding their own mother. They will happily call "Mom, Mom" around the teacher. Another example is the big class game "Which doll did you pick up?" In the game, children dress up as "father" and "mother" to get their dolls. They must tell the characteristics of their children, do various actions, sing and perform, and walk to the venue in time to let other children know who they are looking for. Children feel the joy of music rhythm in the game. Because music games have the characteristics of combining music with action, children can carry out activities according to interesting game plots and music beats, develop actions in the game, and make the actions accurate, beautiful and rhythmic. V. Use of percussion instruments for rhythm innovation In daily teaching activities, children can get to know all kinds of percussion instruments first and feel the timbre of the instruments. Such as triangle iron, double drum, sand hammer, tambourine, wooden fish and so on. Their voices are crisp, vigorous, long and short. In the process of children beating this piece of music, explore different playing methods of percussion instruments, such as knocking on the edge or surface of the tambourine, shaking or shaking, knocking or rubbing small bells. Guide them to express music creatively and inspire them to think independently about how to express rhythm. For example, in On the Farm, the chicken chirps, the dog barks, the pig barks, and so on, and different rhythms can be played: chicken: ××××××××××× |, dog: ×××××××××× |, pig: ××××××××××××× |, calf: ×××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××× For example, in the game of "Driving a Train", when the train is running, it is ××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××× Tao Xingzhi, a famous educator, said that "life is education". Although the sense of rhythm is an innate instinct, only the right way can improve children to the maximum extent, so that children can feel the sense of rhythm by being close to things in life and using their own auditory, visual and motor sense organs, experience the sense of rhythm in the process of speaking, singing and moving, feel the beauty of the sense of rhythm, and enjoy the pleasure brought by the sense of rhythm, thus boldly expressing their emotional experience. (Wang Aihong, Zhuhu Primary School)