Element 1: Birds Singing (Play with Sounds)

Summary

In the process of children play which is to a certain extent the manifestation of free creative activity, the phases lead from illustrative nature to a new skill, knowledge and experience. This psychological aspect is a generally valid starting point for a pedagogical application especially in pupils of a younger school age. Musically-expressive means with which we work in school music education are too abstract for these children. Especially the auditory illustrative nature helps the pupils to understand, sometimes in connection with the visual support. The rule of illustrative nature is not limited by the pupils’ age, it accompanies the development of abstract thinking also in further development stages.

The activities in this block focus on the development of receptive and listening skills and creation of stimuli to improvisation on the basis of auditory perceptions, fantasy and children intuition. The attention of pupils is given to perception of sounds from the nature, observation of musically-expressive aspects during the birds singing, their record in a graphic form and especially sound realization using different materials. The improvisation is in unison or polyphony. The chosen child in the role of a conductor conducts the birds singing (bird concert). Creative elements penetrate receptive and interpretational activities, further art or handmade manifestations.

References: Module 3,

Duration: 45 min

Key words creativity & entrepreneurship: Interaction with the environment, Imagination, Originality of ideas, Flexibility, Exploration, Identification of problems, Development of ideas and solutions

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