The picture book "The Mouse Marries the Bride" tells a well-known folk story, which contains the law of "everything has its vanquisher" in nature and the truth that "the same kind matches the same kind best". This picture book depicts vivid scenes of folk wedding customs in China with vivid pictures. To design music activities according to this picture book, we should explore the combination of educational value and music elements in the picture book and think about how to use music to design activities. The music game "The Mouse Marries the Bride" comes from the picture book story "The Mouse Marries the Bride".

In the process of group discussion and design, we put forward many different ideas, including adapting the lyrics to a singing musical, expressing the physical performance of the story with musical imagination, choosing percussion activities of corresponding instruments according to the role of the story, and musical games expressing "the mouse marries the bride". Through teaching practice, we find that children are most interested in the music game "Mouse Marries Bride". We think that music games have both implicit rules of listening to music and explicit rules of gameplay. How to "play" the picture book story "Mouse Marries Bride" through music games has become our thinking direction.

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According to the above ideas, the goal of this music game is determined as follows:

1. Continue to learn the spring step according to the music rhythm, showing the scene of the mouse carrying the sedan chair;

2. Understand and be willing to abide by the rules of music games and experience the folk custom of marriage in the games.

Activities to be prepared

According to the characteristics of the music game, the theme of the well-known song "Big Flower Sedan" is selected, and this theme runs through the game, so that the music conforms to the festive situation of "sedan chair Wedding".

Before the music game started, we carried out the following activities, which created favorable conditions for the game.

1. Read the story of picture books from two aspects, recite folk nursery rhymes with great interest, and talk about topics such as "everything has its vanquisher" and folk marriage customs.

2. Appreciate the duet songs adapted from the music of "Grand Sedan" and be more familiar with the story and melody.

3.* * * Plus collecting pictures and watching traditional wedding videos, I got a preliminary understanding of a series of folk wedding customs, such as throwing hydrangeas, wearing red caps, sitting in sedan chairs, and bearers carrying sedan chairs.

4. By guiding the children to observe the scene of the sedan chair, distinguish the steps of the sedan chair from the usual way of walking, and initially try to take the spring step.

In outdoor sports, I try to arrange a driver in front, four passengers in the back, two in front and two in the back, and pull a rope left and right to form a car to play a sports game of "driving".

Activity rule

Using the folk custom of marriage, a "mouse marries the bride" game is designed, in which roles are exchanged and rules are freely chosen. The specific gameplay is as follows:

1. The groom finds a good friend as the bride and dresses up first.

2. The first and second music: The groom starts with the music, repeats the music twice and invites the bearers according to the rhythm of the language, two at a time.

3. Music for the third time: Listen to the music and set up a sedan chair-set up a sedan chair before the music is over. The shape of the sedan chair is that the groom is in front, the bearers stand back and forth, and pull the rope left and right. The last two bearers are surrounded by their arms, and the first two bearers put their hands on the groom's shoulders to surround the sedan chair.

4. Music for the fourth time: The sedan chair picks up the bride-five people quick march.

The bride got into the sedan chair when she heard the sound of gongs and drums.

6. The bride and groom go to the new house ―― six people go together.

7. Bride throws hydrangea —— After hearing the drum roll in circles, throw hydrangea at the last beat: the person who receives the hydrangea plays the bride (or groom) of the next game and invites a groom (or bride) to continue the game.

Active link

The first link requires children to further master the essentials of spring step, by learning to be a sedan chair bearer to carry the bride, continue to try to simulate spring step sedan chair, guide children to pay attention to the essentials of action and follow the music beat.

The second link guides children to understand the rules of music games. Music games should not only embody the rules of general games, but also combine with the essence of music. In this game, it is very important to grasp the rhythm and time of music, which is embodied in the following rules: listen to music, walk steadily within a certain range, simulate sedan chair, and don't collide with each other; Please ask the bearers to pick up the bride and throw hydrangeas to the music. You must not be in the front, nor can you be in the back: the team carrying the sedan chair must March forward neatly and not fall apart.

Activity process

In order to let children master the above rules, the teacher decomposes the three key points of the game-inviting bearers, riding sedan chairs and throwing hydrangeas at the sound of gongs and drums through the transformation of various roles such as demonstrator, participant, interpreter and observer.

1. Put the rules of the game in the context and explain them in the context of the game.

In the initial game, children often have some problems, such as walking together, unable to find an invitee after music, and uncoordinated pace of peers, which are closely related to the poor development of children's spatial perception and temporal vision, and cannot be judged simply by not obeying the rules. We give tips according to the game situation, so that children can take the initiative to pay attention to their movements and music. For example, when children just started walking, they crowded together and caused collisions. The teacher used the hint of "sedan chair on the main road, don't take the path" to guide the children to choose an open field.

At the end of the music, the child still stopped halfway and couldn't find the invited object, so he used the prompt of "Arriving at the sedan chair or the bride's door on time" to inspire the child to pay attention to the melody of the music, judge the distance between himself and the invited object and arrive on time.

Some children love to invite each other, or choose a partner who has already dressed up as the bride and groom to dress up repeatedly. The teachers immediately responded with the situational language "Can a girl marry a girl" and "Can a person get married twice", which made the children feel convinced and willing to abide by the rules of the game.

2. Break down the difficulties and proceed step by step

The first game-the teacher plays the groom, participates in the demonstration, and demonstrates in sections to let the children understand the game.

The second game-please ask a child to be the groom and try to play games. At this time, teachers provide support for children as leaders and interpreters. Find problems in observation and use situational language to help children consolidate the rules of music games in time.

The third game-two sedan chairs move at the same time, guiding children to try the game themselves. During the observation, the teacher gave the children a correct evaluation (not arriving at the door early or late) and gave appropriate hints (listening to music is more secure than watching footsteps), which promoted the progress of the children's game and further realized the fun of the game.

3. Grasp the key and encourage exploration.

In this game, the biggest difficulty is that six people (groom, bride and four bearers) walk at the same time, and children often walk upside down, even the "sedan chair" is scattered. At this point, the teacher will guide the children to think and find problems and find a good way to March neatly. At first, children have two opinions, one is to look at the footsteps of friends in front, and the other is to listen to music. The teacher also asked the children to try these two methods respectively, and found that the latter is more suitable than the former: "Even if you can't see the footsteps of the children in front, you won't fall apart as long as you follow the rhythm of the music."

By thinking, comparing and trying, children learn actively and master the rules of the game more firmly. The more children play in the game, the happier they are. Their comprehensive qualities such as positive emotion, cooperation and coordination ability, self-control ability of obeying rules and aesthetic ability have been improved in the game.