[HANASHIR:16170] Re: Songsheets

[Carol Boyd Leon <cbleon...>]

Lisa, my experience with all-Hebrew songsheets for beginning Hebrew readers 
is the same as yours.

For all-Hebrew songsheets at religious school, I select songs which have 
limited or repetitive or at least familiar words and we spend most of the 
class painstakingly sounding them out and often only having enough time to 
work on part of a song or prayer.  The time we actually spend learning music 
and getting to sing is very limited in those music classes, so I try to 
alternate those kinds of music classes with others that include songs in 
English and/or transliteration designed to get the kids singing.  (However, 
I still try to include the actual Hebrew on those songsheets as well because 
kids who can read Hebrew shouldn't be forced to go back to reading 
transliteration.)

Teaching kids to sing in Hebrew has several goals (including but not limited 
to helpng them learn to read Hebrew) so I work on different goals in 
different classes.

At the day school, however, I never give any transliteration... unless I'm 
teaching how to read music or working with my choir there and want them to 
see the sheet music.  It's a pleasure that the day school kids read the 
Hebrew so easily and can teach me a thing or two.  Interestingly, however, 
I've found that the day school kids have limited ability to translate the 
Hebrew and so I always provide (or at least tell them) the translation.

-- Carol


Carol Boyd Leon
Songwriter/Cantorial Soloist/Music Educator
E-mail:  CBLeon (at) hotmail(dot)com
Phone:  703-250-0554
Web page:  http://www.geocities.com/CBoydLeon




----Original Message Follows----
From: "Lisa Baydush" <LisaB (at) GDSInc(dot)com>
Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
To: <QuelliPG (at) aol(dot)com>,<hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
Subject: [HANASHIR:16165] Re: Songsheets
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 07:34:01 -0500

It seems to me that learning music and learning to read Hebrew are two
entirely separate things (although music will certainly reinforce the
process of learning Hebrew)....
Lisa

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