About this Course

Overview:

When offering musical experience to children, it is our role to provide them with opportunities to discover their natural feel for music, to move freely to music and to use their imagination. Through listening, moving, singing and playing simple percussion instruments, the child will experience melody, beat, rhythm, dynamics and form – the fundamental concepts of Music Education in the Early Years. 

The workshop includes songs, dances, circles singing games, rhymes, clapping games, and fingerplays that promote the acquisition of these musical concepts and includes some ideas for encouraging the children to respond with enthusiasm and a shared enjoyment.

Objectives:

1. To provide wide repertoire of songs, fingerplays, clapping games, dances and singing games.

2. Learn how to use different percussion instruments.

3. Learn how to teach and create music and movement program.

4. Improvisation – using creative imagination and free expression.

5. Develop a sense of beat (The steady pulse in music shown physically by tapping feet, etc.)

6. Develop rhythm (The duration of sounds. A specific rhythm is a pattern e.g. a series of words.)

7. Discriminate between high and low sounds. (Pitch)

8. Discrimination between loud and soft. (Dynamics)

9. Discrimination between fast and slow. (Tempo)

Aims:

1. To develop social interaction between peers

2. Encourage creativity

3. Listening skills and concentration

4. Memory

5. Improve co-ordination and body awareness

6. Communication skills and verbal development

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