Here are a few photos of a demo workshop we held recently at a local festival in Ochiai, Tokyo. Hopefully the images give you a clearer picture of what we do in a Music Together class and what the program is about and the philosophy that guides it.
これらは最近、地元である東京、落合のフェスティバルで行ったデモワークショップの写真です。 Music Togetherのクラスではどんな事をするのか、またその基となるプログラムの考え方がどんなものであるか理解するのに役立てば嬉しいです。
Photos generously taken by Juntaro Ito. 写真提供 Ito Juntaro
`Hello Everybody`. This is what we call a `ritual song`, we sing it at the begining of every class. Children soon enjoy the comfort of a familiar song and it signals to them that it`s music time . . .
Experimenting with egg shakers. We explore a number of different percussion instruments in class, finding different ways to play with them. It is not about `copying` the teachers way to use them, all ways are valid ways and we often take our cue from the children and we follow the actions that they do with their eggs. There is easily more than a 101 ways to make music with an egg shaker.
Music Together is about supporting and nurturing your child`s love of music. You do not need to be a good singer or play an instrument to teach your child about music. The most important thing you can do for your young child is show them how much YOU love music and singing, dancing, and jamming with them. This will support them and help them grow up with music in their lives, and experience all the joy that comes with that.
Music Togetherは子どもが音楽を好きになるように支え、はぐくむものです。子どもに音楽を教えるために歌が上手く歌えたり、楽器を演奏することができたりしなくてもいいのです。あなたが子どものためにできる一番大切な事は、あなたがどれほど音楽が好きか、歌ったり踊ったりみんなとあわせて演奏することが好きかを示す事なのです。 こうして子どもは音楽とともに成長し、またその喜びを経験する事ができます。
A singalong storybook. Stories aren`t just for reading, we can `sing` them too. Sitting down with your child and looking through a singalong storybook not only allows them to `play` with a song, there are a number of activities you can do to support early literacy skills.
Both parent and child take part together. Parents follow the lead of the teacher, and model for their own child, and others in the class. Here my child Rose sits in the safety of mummy`s lap, but shes looking at the other mothers and their actions. The class is a community of music makers.
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