On a weeknight
around 5:15pm
Five preschoolers and three adults are gathered on a blue rug. Joy and Monica are building bridges for frog Agogo out of a Clatter-pillar. Neville makes buoys out of plastic rain sticks and finger cymbals conducting two of the adults in their ‘warning bell’ sound. Jade and another adult experiment with the sounds of a triangle. Ximena sits on the edge of the rug taking it in carefully. She is holding on to two bells strung together with a red rope. After watching the buoy ‘warning bells’ being sounded by finger cymbals by Neville, she examines her bells carefully. With two hands she takes the bells and causes them to collide making a lovely ringing sound. She smiles.
Five preschoolers and three adults are gathered on a blue rug. Joy and Monica are building bridges for frog Agogo out of a Clatter-pillar. Neville makes buoys out of plastic rain sticks and finger cymbals conducting two of the adults in their ‘warning bell’ sound. Jade and another adult experiment with the sounds of a triangle. Ximena sits on the edge of the rug taking it in carefully. She is holding on to two bells strung together with a red rope. After watching the buoy ‘warning bells’ being sounded by finger cymbals by Neville, she examines her bells carefully. With two hands she takes the bells and causes them to collide making a lovely ringing sound. She smiles.
The vignette cues us in to what it looks when a
child is master of her own learning. Throughout the 10-week course the
participating children had their own individual moments of learning. This time
set aside for exploration in music and the time spent carefully crafting plans
for exploring musicianship are important to the child’s development musically.
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