We continue with a lot of Active Listening (differentiating between hearing and listening) in our Imagine That! classes. “Hearing” and “Listening” are quite different. Hearing is a process involving nerves and muscles that reach adult efficiency by age four to five. Listening is a learned behavior, a mental process that is concerned with hearing, attending, discriminating, understanding, and remembering. It can be improved with practice. Listening affects social interactions, one’s level of functioning, and perhaps one’s overall success in life.
The At-Home Kindermusik CDs are created with several goals in mind. One of these goals is to introduce your child to a variety of musical styles. This week, while we all listened to “storm music” (an excerpt from the Allegro “Storm” movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, Op. 68 in F Major, the Pastoral Symphony), the children made “storm drawings.”
We were transferring our whole body movements of dancing to and creating wind and storm music to controlled hand and finger movements.
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