Learning Through Music
- Author: Levin, Herbert & Levin, Gail
- ISBN: 9781891278006
A collection of 42 musical activities designed for music teachers and music therapists to use in their work with children of various ages, abilities, and needs at the primary level. With over 100 variations, involving singing, moving and playing instruments, these developmentally sequenced activities have been carefully crafted to help cghildren develop perceptual motor abilities, attentional skills, behavioral limits, speech and language skills, and relational concepts. 1998, 150 pages, Paperback.
Table of Contents
Authors’ Preface xiv
INTRODUCTION
Before You Begin 1
Activity Description Page 1
Level 1
Children Required 2
Instrument Required 2
Instrument Symbols 2
About the Instruments 2
General Teaching Suggestions 4
Playing the Instruments 5
Directing Techniques 6
Pacing 7
Using Cassette Recordings 8
Working Arrangements 8
Supplementary Activities 9
PRE-PRIMARY INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES
Activity #1, “To the Music I,” and Activity #2, “To the Music II” 13
Activity #3, “Taking Turns” 16
Activity #4, “Come, Come, Come” 18
Activity #5, “Sleeping Song” 20
Activity #6, “Stand Up” 22
Activity #7, “Now Beat One” 24
PRIMARY INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES
Activity #8, “Beat the Drum Once” 28
Activity #9, “Copycat I,” and Activity #10, “Copycat II,” 30
Activity #11, “One”; Activity #12, “Two”; and Activity #13, “Three” 32
Activity #14, “Play Your Bell One Time” 36
Activity #15, “Busy Hands” 38
INTERMEDIATE INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES
Activity #16, “The Drum Caught Cold” 43
Activity #17, “Two and Three” 46
Activity #18, “Quietly” 48
Activity #19, “Drums Four and Five” 50
Activity #20, “Slow Horns” 52
Activity #21, “Bell Dance” 54
Activity #22, “One Bell, Two Bells” 56
Activity #23, “Drums Ten and Nine” 58
Activity #24, “Sad Bells” 60
Activity #25, “Magic Wand” 62
Activity #26, “Drums Five and Six” 64
Activity #27, “Drums Six and Seven” 66
ADVANCED INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES
Activity #28, “Drummer Boy” 71
Activity #29, “Hurry Horns” 74
Activity #30, “Try and Catch Me” 76
Activity #31, “Jack in the Box” 79
Activity #32, “Spooky Bells” 83
Activity #33, “Echoes” 87
Activity #34, “March of the Magic Mingos” 91
Activity #35, “What Do You See in the Sky?” 94
Activity #36, “Two Shoes” 97
Activity #37, “Color Song” 101
Activity #38, “If—Then” 105
Activity #39, “Is—Are” 108
Activity #40, “This—That” 110
Activity #41, “Simile Song” 112
Activity #42, “Happy Things” 115
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES
Perceptual-Motor Development 119
Motor Development 120
Perceptual Development 122
The Perceptual-Motor Match 123
Attention and Limit-Setting 124
Attention 124
Limit Setting 125
Language Development 126
Practice of Speech Sounds 127
Vocabulary Building 127
Sentence Building 127
Grammatical Constructions 127
Classification 128
Pre-Reading Skills 128
Relational Concepts 128
Number Concepts 128
One vs. More Than One 129
Rote Counting 129
Meaningful Counting 129
Zero 129
Sets 129
Beginning Addition 130
Bibliography and References 131