[HANASHIR:9894] Re: pre-school music

[Carol Boyd Leon <cbleon...>]

My 2 cents on creative repetition with various groupings of students is that 
it's a wonderful concept and can work quite well in elementary grades, but 
when the kids are 2 and 3 years old and some aren't even talking yet, it's 
just not going to work.  They're just not in "performance mode" or even 
"competition mode" yet.  That's why preschool music specialists have to work 
so hard to make the class an educational, musical, and worthwhile experience 
by doing everything short of handstands to keep the kids' attention...  
(I've been doing it for more than a decade.)

Carol Boyd Leon
Burke, VA
Songwriter/Songleader/Music Educator
E-mail:  CBLeon (at) hotmail(dot)com
Web page:  http://www.geocities.com/CBoydLeon


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