subject: Important Early Childhood Activities For Your Child [print this page] Instrument Play-Along with Recording provides an opportunity for children to play an instrument along with a recording. This type of activity:
-Increases physical knowledge. Children gain an awareness of how their actions alter sound.
-Heightens listening skills. Children begin to focus on individual aspects of music as they also hear the whole.
-Improves a child's feel for rhythm and beat
-Helps children develop motor skills and body awareness
Hungarian composer, folk music collector and music educator Zoltan Kodaly (1882 - 1967) had an important influence on the world of music education. He considered the voice to be the major instrument, and thought singing should therefore be the focus of much of early musical education. His research led him to develop an approach that involves the organized presentation of pitches to develop the ear and singing voice. Bitonic (sol-mi), tritonic (sol-mi-la), tetratonic (sol-mi-la-do) and pentatonic (sol-mi-la-do-re) melodies are presented in sequence in some early childhood classes to help children develop an awareness of intervals as the tonal building blocks of music.
Literature significantly influences children's early socialization , providing them with the tools to construct thought-provoking ideas, understand concepts and issues and solve problems. Characteristics of a good literature book for 3- and 4-year-olds are:
-High literary and artistic standards related to characters, plot, setting and theme.
-Characters are multifaceted and well-rounded. They are consistently and credibly enmeshed within a story (Tomlinson & Lynch-Brown, 1991).
- Plots make sense to young children and "remain clear and creditable.
- Settings reinforce the underlying themes of a story.
- Themes are worthy, appealing, and universally human.
What better way to preserve memories and stories than through photographs? The literature book Razupazu Toto is an example of how photos can be used to remember and tell about friends. Photographs and stories about the past can help 3- and 4-year-olds develop their own sense of identity over time.
Concrete documentation, such as photographs, allows children to reconstruct stories and express memories. And as children tell stories of past events, narrative and sequencing skills are being developed.
by: Cheow Yu Yuan
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