[HANASHIR:7349] Re: Best Way to Teach/Display Lyrics?

[shirona <shirona...>]

Hi Penny -

A few methods that work for me:

For K-3-  no lyrics on print.  If the songs are simple, which they should be
for this age group, the kids will remember the words.

1.  Explain briefly what the song is about.

2. ***Many rhythmic repetitions of the words***,   before you teach the
melody, in "call and response" mode.  for example, if you're teaching
"Salaam" -

Od ! (you) - od  ! (the kids)
Ya-vo ! (you) - ya-vo ! (the kids)
Sha-lom! (you) - sha-lom! (the kids)... etc.

Then you can group more words together -

Od ya-vo sha-lom a- lei-nu (you) - od ya-vo...etc, (the kids)

- as long as you call them out with a strong rhythm - even if the song does
not have that kind of a rhythm.  It gets the kids excited about repeating
after you.  As you go along explain the meaning of the individual key words.

3.  Have them repeat the words with the proper phrasing for the song, one
line at a time
4. Introduce the melody.  By now they have a good handle on the lyrics!

Hope this helps,
Shirona




----- Original Message -----
From: "Penny White" <pwhite2 (at) prodigy(dot)net>
To: <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 12:17 PM
Subject: [HANASHIR:7328] Best Way to Teach/Display Lyrics?


> I would love to know what method you folks find most effective to teach
> Hebrew lyrics to a group of elementary school kids during a songleading
> session.
> Thanks in advance!
> -Penny
>
>

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