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Music request.
Sep. 27th, 2006 07:03 pmAs I've said before, I'm co-teaching the preschool Religious Education class at my church this year. We're doing a unit on our senses and how they help us experience the world. I'm the lead teacher for this week's class, on sound and hearing.
One thing I want to do is talk with the kids about how sounds can be used to express feelings. I'm going to play short pieces of music and ask them what feelings the music suggests, what kind of a story might go with the music, and how we might move to the music.
So far I've picked out some bouncy, incredibly cheerful marimba music, some tense, angry music (the "Mars" movement of Holst's The Planets), and some awestruck music (Thus Spoke Tharathustra, a.k.a. That Music From 2001: A Space Odyssey.) I'd like something sad, and something sleepy. For the purposes of this exercise, it should either be instrumental music (ideally) or music with lyrics that aren't in English.
Suggestions?
Also, any creative ideas about activities that could be done with a collection of miscellaneous sound effects, other than a simple guessing game?
One thing I want to do is talk with the kids about how sounds can be used to express feelings. I'm going to play short pieces of music and ask them what feelings the music suggests, what kind of a story might go with the music, and how we might move to the music.
So far I've picked out some bouncy, incredibly cheerful marimba music, some tense, angry music (the "Mars" movement of Holst's The Planets), and some awestruck music (Thus Spoke Tharathustra, a.k.a. That Music From 2001: A Space Odyssey.) I'd like something sad, and something sleepy. For the purposes of this exercise, it should either be instrumental music (ideally) or music with lyrics that aren't in English.
Suggestions?
Also, any creative ideas about activities that could be done with a collection of miscellaneous sound effects, other than a simple guessing game?
