Assignment 9 Worksheet for Chapter 7

Question 1) Children move naturally. List and explain the guidelines and suggestions in the textbook that help teachers generate ideas for students to learn music through rhythmic bodily response activities. (page 234)
1-Encourage the child's natural inclination to move.
2-Encourage the natural use of speech, gesture, and body language to express thoughts and emotions.
3-Encourage the use of various levels of energy and timing in movement, speech, and gesture.
4-Allow children to explore and find ways to "live" particular elements of music in movement.
5-Identify elements, concepts, or other aspects of music that children should experience (like repetition)
6-Pay attention to children's individual responses. Sometimes a child's response is so imaginative that it is worth having the whole class try it.
7-Allow freedom and opportunities to express music with their bodies in spontaneous ways.
8-Encourage the completion of structured tasks that will, in turn, result in musical learning.
9-Choose music for rhythmic activities that cause children to respond instinctively by, for example, tapping a foot or bouncing and catching a ball.
10-Use a variety of music and begin early to find music you like and make a list of possible ways to move to it.

Question 2 What does locomotor skills mean? What is non-locomotor skill?

Locomotor skills: are those motor skills in which the feet move the body from one place to another. They include Walking, Running, Hopping, Jumping, Skipping,Galloping, Sliding (a sideways gallop) and Leaping.

Non-locomotor skills: movement is moving on the spot without going anywhere.
For example:
• Twisting - the rotation of a selected body part around its long axis
• Bending - moving a joint
• Swaying - fluidly and gradually shifting the center of gravity from one body part to another
• Stretching - moving body parts away from the center of gravity
• Turning - rotating the body along the long axis
• Swinging - rhythmical, smooth motion of a body part resembling a pendulum

Question 3
List the four stages in developing children's body awareness:
1) Movement as an expression of solving a problem
2) Movement as an expression of imagery
3) Movement with no external beat
4) Movement to a beat with a sense of timing

Question 4
What are the musical concepts that can be taught through movement activities?
1-Beat/meter
2-Fast, slow, getting faster, getting slower
3-Accents
4- Dynamics
5-Rhythm patterns
6-Melodic contour

Question 5
Choose one concept and summarize the lesson provided in the textbook telling how this particular musical concept is taught through the movement activity.
*I choose the musical concept: Accents- encourage students to use free creative movements to express accents as they occur in music.
I choose to summarize the suggestion lesson for grades K-3
-All of the students would sit in a circle and raise or lower their ball of yarn as the accents were played. Someone would be playing the rhythms on a drum.
-Also, download and play "Golliwog's Cakewalk". Ask the students to make tight fists, then open their hands suddenly as they hear accents. Lastly, have the children stand and relax their bodies, with arms hanging loosely at their sides, and tighten their muscles for accents.
--Accents are taught through tightening and loosening up with bodies and muscles.