[HANASHIR:9898] Re: pre-school music

[Julia Priest <priestsinger...>]

I am concerned about competitive singing, mostly because I _think_ children
should not be asked to sing louder.  I find the "accept and include"
technique works very well (for some songs):  ask kids which
animal/vehicle/family member/crazy idea to use for the next verse.
There is a GREAT program called Music Together in which I learned more about
how to increase repetition while increasing enjoyment at the same time.
Julia

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Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 4:04 PM
To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
Subject: [HANASHIR:9894] Re: pre-school music


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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