How to infiltrate music into children’s daily life
Yin Jing, Mingde Kindergarten, Liuhe Town Early Childhood Education Center
Abstract: Tao Xingzhi, people’s educator In the "Declaration on the Establishment of Rural Kindergartens", it is particularly emphasized that early childhood education is the basic education of life. He pointed out: "Early childhood education is actually the foundation of life, and it must be established for him as early as possible. Children's scholars tell us that the period before six years old is the most important period for personality cultivation. If you cultivate it well during this period, you will only need a little training in the future to become a natural person. Excellent elements of society; if not cultivated well, habits will not be easy to change, tendencies will not be easy to change, and attitudes will not be easy to change." Music education is an important part of early childhood education and plays an important role in the growth and development of young children. The influence cannot be underestimated. This article mainly discusses the role of music on the healthy growth of children and how to integrate music into children's daily life.
Keywords: early childhood music music education life
General Secretary Jiang once said: "Quality education must start from childhood." Because whether children can receive high-quality education in early childhood will determine their lifelong development, and the cultivation of high-quality talents is inseparable from art education rich in humanistic connotations. Western intellectuals believe that music is the higher revelation of all philosophy. The famous scientist Einstein said: "Many of my scientific achievements were inspired by music." This shows that music education is an important part of aesthetic education, and its special educational function is unparalleled by other education. Music education has unique significance in shaping children's good psychological quality, improving their overall psychological development level, and enabling children to have stable and positive emotions, strong will and confidence, good character and harmonious interpersonal relationships. Therefore, it is one of the important ways to cultivate high-quality talents.
Music is beautiful, music is happy. Music is the art form most closely related to human life. Music is an auditory art. Children do not understand abstract concepts such as the strength, speed, and height of sounds. Only by integrating music into children's lives and game activities can children learn easily and happily. Music is a performing art. In order for children to experience various performance methods and the content expressed, it is difficult to complete by hearing alone. It must allow children to directly reflect in practice and perceive the intensity, speed, rhythm and timbre of music.
The true meaning of early childhood music education is to implement music education for young children according to their biological and psychological development characteristics. Only such early childhood music education can fully develop the children's quality and play its due role in the growth of the children. , can truly promote the comprehensive, harmonious and happy growth of children. Suhomlinsky, an educator from the former Soviet Union, once said: "Music education is not about cultivating musicians, it is about cultivating people first." Music education is an important part of early childhood education and has an important impact on the growth and development of young children that should not be underestimated. . Music education can enable young children to experience happiness, develop their emotions and sense of beauty, and develop their sensory perception, cultivating motivation and laying the foundation for their future healthy life and lifelong art learning.
Music can prevent and cure diseases, music can make people healthy physically and mentally, and music can give people intelligence and wisdom. The use of music at the age of young children has extremely far-reaching significance. In addition to being a means of preventing, treating and rehabilitating children's mental, physical, psychological and other diseases, it also plays a huge role in promoting the overall development of young children, especially playing an extremely important role in the development of young children's brain functions. The main points are as follows:
1. Music can enable the healthy development of children's body and mind
Beautiful and pleasant music can make people happy and enhance their vitality. According to relevant medical research, when people are happy, a substance beneficial to health can be produced in the blood, which can promote blood circulation, enhance metabolism, promote digestion, and relieve fatigue. The ever-changing melody, rhythm and speed in music can not only regulate the functions of the human body, but also have a direct impact on the limbic system and the planar reticular structure of the brain.
It allows children to use body movements to feel the emotions of music, that is, to freely swing, walk or jump, etc., to create rhythmic movements, arouse children's natural instincts, cultivate the extremely important sense of rhythm of the human body, and establish a sense of harmony between body and mind. Coordination of movements makes hearing sharper, emotions more delicate, and children more lively and healthy. In addition, in group activities such as music games and dance, children's sense of spatial orientation can also be better developed, such as position changes between individuals and formation changes between groups. It allows children to feel the movement and stillness, long and short, strong and weak in music during activities, appreciate the charm of music rhythm, and promote the coordinated development of movements.
2. Music can promote the development of children’s intelligence. Music can promote the normal development of children’s brains and is conducive to the overall development of the brain.
Music education plays an important role in promoting the growth of children's brain cells, the thickening of the cortex, and the improvement of brain functions, which are closely related to the development of children's intelligence. In music activities, information from various sounds and body movements is input into the brain, enhancing the stimulation of brain neurons, which is conducive to the connection between neurons and the formation of neural pathways; at the same time, music can cultivate the coordination and agility of children's movements. , Promote children’s intellectual development. Movement is the starting point for children's intellectual development. Someone once suggested that training children's hands and feet is to train the brain, and the training of hands and feet can be fully displayed in musical activities: playing the piano trains the flexibility of the fingers, and dancing trains the coordination of the whole body. Singing, song and dance performances, music games, etc. in music can promote the coordinated development of children's movements. Howard Gardner, a psychologist at Harvard University in the United States, once pointed out that the human brain has six intelligences, the third of which is musical intelligence, which is the ability to feel rhythm and music and create creations. It can be seen that there is an inseparable connection between music and intelligence itself. Music education can expand children's musical horizons, enrich their perceptual abilities, and develop image thinking. Young children can acquire a wide range of knowledge through music learning.
3. Music can cultivate good ideological and moral character in children
Any ideological and moral education without an emotional foundation can only become empty preaching, and music education can just lay the foundation for moral education. Emotional basis. The music education a person receives in early childhood often affects him throughout his life. A short song often has great power and far-reaching impact. The song "Sorry, It's Okay" uses a brisk rhythm and easy-to-understand language to allow children to understand the connotation of the lyrics and learn to use polite expressions while singing and performing; "The Goat Steps on the Little Rooster" allows children to combine their own life experiences, Understand that children should understand each other, give in to each other, and get along well with each other; "Li Xiaoduo's Fruit and Fruit" allows children to realize that humility can bring happiness to others. The influence of music on children's minds is often potential, but its educational effect is obvious and the effect is long-term. Music is an indispensable "vitamin" in children's spiritual life. We should integrate moral education into music teaching according to the characteristics of children who like emotions but hate reasoning, like images and hate abstraction, so as to truly achieve the purpose of using emotion to make people happy and to make people happy with emotion. .
4. Music can cultivate children's aesthetic emotions
Music can make people feel beautiful and receive education from beauty, which is the education of love. It can cultivate people's noble emotions and aesthetic taste. Has an irreplaceable role. It makes people feel the joy of life and love life more. For example, the songs "The National Flag is So Beautiful" can inspire children to love the motherland and the national flag; "Little Navy" and "Hata Dedicated to the People's Liberation Army" can inspire children to love the People's Liberation Army; "Duty Birthday Song" can cultivate children's love for labor; "Care for Little Saplings" can cultivate children's thoughts and feelings of caring for public property.
Music is indispensable in people's lives, and music plays an immeasurable role in the growth of children. Therefore, parents and teachers should provide good music education to children from an early age so that they can grow up healthily in the company of beautiful music.
Therefore, we must correctly understand the role of music in promoting children and use music appropriately and in a timely manner.
So what should we do in the daily life of young children?
1. Come to the kindergarten and play soft and sweet music, so that children can enter a quiet and comfortable music and art environment when they enter the kindergarten, so that children’s musical talents can be well developed and arouse children’s happy emotions. Actively participate in activities and interact with each other. For example: I play it every day when children come to kindergarten. New Age is often related to music therapy. A lot of New Age music is said to be able to cure diseases. Among them, I mainly recommend the music of Bandari, a fantastic lyrical performance band. , the scenery of lakes and mountains belonging to Switzerland is aesthetically embodied in music. Every note represents the layers of emotion compressed into the heart. .For example: "Annie's Wonderland", "Spring Fields", etc., and sometimes "Morning Saxophone", "CCTV Morning Greetings", "Morning Song" and other music are played. Children will feel very peaceful and peaceful after listening to this kind of music.
2. When teachers teach, they should teach in a way that children like. The teaching method should be lively and lively. Change the teaching method of filling the whole classroom with children as the main body. All teaching should start from feelings and be carried out through games. Use sensory, heuristic, discussion, and improvisation methods to mobilize children's enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity. The design of teaching activities should reflect the word "interesting", the teaching methods are diverse, and the word "living" should be reflected, because proper teaching methods can "One wave stirs up a thousand waves", learning flexibly and appropriately can get twice the result with half the effort. For example, according to the goals of music activities, cleverly arrange the structure and content of music activities, try to be as plot-based as possible, conduct short rhythm vocal exercises through small games, and use stories, toys, rhythm music, headwear, pictures, situational performances, and momentum Practice, etc., teach, listen to music during the activities, and perform actions while singing. The entire educational activity is always in a state of listening, singing, jumping, clapping, and knocking, so that the children are immersed in a happy atmosphere. For example, when giving the musical activity "walking" to middle-class children, children's songs can be read aloud and the sounds that symbolize the walking of bunny, deer, and ducklings can be used, so that children can quickly master the basic rhythm of syncopation. When learning children's songs or stories, coupled with beautiful music, rhythm and rhyme activities, on the one hand, it can stimulate children's interest in learning language and enhance language expressiveness. On the other hand, it can enhance brain function and improve memory.
3. In the music corner, children can make many homemade musical instruments, such as using chopsticks to knock pot lids, buckets, plastic bottles, etc. In addition, we also put in some props such as headdresses, gauze scarves, costumes, fans, umbrellas, etc. for children to play freely. They can touch, knock, move, hit, play, and jump in the music corner. The children each showed off their acting talents. When they perform, we will play some music that children like, such as "Three Cat Biscuits", "Pink Whirlpool", "Swan" and other music.
4. Play music while eating. Music can help dispel physical and mental fatigue. Beautiful melody can strengthen gastrointestinal motility, promote saliva secretion, and help digestion and absorption. The music played during this period is best to be light music. If it has lyrics, the children will hum along as they become familiar with it. Not only does this not help digestion, but it is also dangerous and the children may easily choke. Therefore, we often play piano music such as "Für Elise", "Dream Wedding" and "Adilina by the Water" by Richard Clayderman.
5. During nap time, play soft, quiet, lyrical and slow lullabies. Children are not required to close their eyes immediately. Children will fall asleep naturally while listening to the music, cultivating good nap habits in children. . For example: Mozart's "Lullaby", "Sleep, Little Baby" and other music.
6. When the activity requires the children to gather, use the tambourine to beat the rhythm pattern suitable for the age characteristics of the children. On the one hand, it can calm the children down, and at the same time, they can quickly imitate the rhythm pattern and cultivate the children's imagination. Rhythm. You can also play music familiar to young children. For example: ask them to be quiet. When they are done, they will play the 1353 scale, sing "Sit down quickly", and repeat the playing. The children will be able to sit down quickly according to the voice prompts.
7. When children are playing with sports equipment such as slides, we can sing the song "Stretch and Turn". Children can sing while playing, learn happily, and sing naturally and cheerfully. When children are running or skipping rope, playing cheerful music with a distinctive rhythm will further increase their interest in exercise, because the sense of rhythm can bring joy to children. For example: When exercising outdoors, we will play the songs "Hee Swah Swish" and "Health Song" to let the children play happily in the music.
8. Listening to music and drawing provide children with a broader imagination space and create a good atmosphere for them. For example: Mozart's "Stars", Saint-Sa?ns's "Kangaroo", Bandery's "Your Smile", etc.
In addition to kindergarten education and training, family influence on young children also plays a decisive role. In addition to kindergarten, we also communicate with parents to let them understand that the home environment has a subtle impact on the development of children's musical intelligence. Before the communication, many parents believed that they had not received formal music education, had bad voices, were tone-deaf, and had no musical ability, so they felt powerless to create a music environment in the family. In fact, creating a music environment does not require parents to teach their children to sing, make beats, or play musical instruments. Rather, it requires children to live in an environment full of music and singing, and to constantly accept the stimulation of music, so that their interest in music and The musical talent displayed is extraordinary, and the family environment has a subtle influence on the cultivation of children's interest in music. For example, the famous physicist Einstein was considered an "idiot" when he was a child because of his learning difficulties. Because the school refused to accept him, little Einstein had to stay at home. Einstein's mother always spent several hours playing the piano every day. Over time, Einstein also fell in love with playing the piano.
In short, the growth of young children cannot be separated from music. The development of young children requires music. In turn, music can promote the growth and development of young children. At the same time, music is an important way to promote the intellectual development of young children. The great scientist Darwin once said: "If a person does not listen to music, it is likely to affect his intelligence." Therefore, we can make full use of music education as a means to promote the development of children's intelligence; at the same time, we also understand that the impact of music intelligence on children The goal of the development and training of children is no longer to train musicians, nor to train children in musical skills and instill knowledge, but to use music as a means to cultivate their spiritual beauty, interest in music, appreciation ability, and edification Its beauty stimulates intelligence and creativity to bring into play the special function of musical activities in both physical and mental development. This is the fundamental role of music. Therefore, perceiving music, learning music, and appreciating music should be integrated into children's daily life.
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