The workshop approach: definitions and roles of the facilitator; definitions of a ‘workshop’; setting a context;
creating a suitable environment; communication skills; contingency planning
Practical activities: e.g. warm-up activities, musical games, starting points; style-specific workshops eg
samba, African drumming, taiko, singing activities, creative/composition activities, exploring an idea,
teamwork, directing, rehearsing, performing, integrating your own musical skills
The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round,
The wheels on the bus go round and round, all through the town.
The wipers on the bus go swish swish swish, swish swish swish, swish swish swish,
The wipers on the bus go swish swish swish, swish swish swish, all through the town.
The people on the bus go chat chat chat, chat chat chat, chat chat chat,
The people on the bus go chat chat chat, all through the town.
The horn on the bus goes beep beep beep, beep beep beep, beep beep beep,
The horn on the bus goes beep beep beep, all through the town.
The babies on the bus go waa waa waa, waa waa waa, waa waa waa,
The babies on the bus go waa waa waa, all through the town.
Lyrics for He's got the whole world in his hands
He's got the whole world in his hands,
He's got the whole world in his hands,
He's got the whole world in his hands,
He's got the whole world in his hands.
He's got my brothers and my sisters in his hands,
He's got my brothers and my sisters in his hands,
He's got my brothers and my sisters in his hands,
He's got the whole world in his hands.
He's got the sun and the rain in his hands,
He's got the rivers and mountains in his hands,
He's got the oceans and the seas in his hands,
He's got you and me in his hands,
He's got the whole world in his hands.
He's got everybody here in his hands,
He's got everybody there in his hands,
He's got everybody everywhere in his hands,
He's got the whole world in his hands.
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What I want to change for next time...
creating a suitable environment; communication skills; contingency planning
Practical activities: e.g. warm-up activities, musical games, starting points; style-specific workshops eg
samba, African drumming, taiko, singing activities, creative/composition activities, exploring an idea,
teamwork, directing, rehearsing, performing, integrating your own musical skills
- minutes from planning meetings
- annotated planning notes
- a final workshop plan
- an outline of an intended project (including, for instance, client group profile, venue details, practical
- considerations, aims and objectives, workshop plans and materials)
- a project journal or diary
- evaluation evidence, e.g. completed questionnaires or recorded interviews.
Live Music workshop Harpsden Hoppers.
In this project I'm going to be doing a live music workshop on a group of toddlers at a mother and toddlers group, in Harpsden, Henley, it's called Harpsden Hoppers. They are aged from 1 to 4 years old. I chose an environment like this and young children as I think teaching younger people (children) can be very interesting, they are much more eager to learn and you can make some really good exciting lesson plans for them.The downside of teaching younger children is that they can be very easily distracted and in some ways hard to keep in control but I think this will be a good challenge for me and give me good experience.
I want to choose an activity which will really interest them and encourage them to get up and involved. Although it may not be very technical I want to do something which will trigger their minds, make them have a good time, make them think and also inspire them.
I've decided I will teach them a small nursery rhyme which has small movement. I chose this because I don't want to make them do anything too long which will make them lose concentration or make them bored. I also chose a nursery rhyme because at that age it's something that they're used to hearing and learning so it should be something they're familiar with so they will be confident. For one week Daisy will be assisting me and for another I will be assisting Daisy (at the same place).
Below is the poster that we have put up in the mother and toddlers group, we will change the names according to who is doing the workshop.
ABOUT NURSERY RHYMES AND IDEAS
I think it could be a good idea to teach them one that they are perhaps familiar with, I want to do something new for them because doing the same thing they have already done before may bore them but having something that they are vaguely familiar with could encourage them even more as they will feel confident with it.
Names of nursery rhymes:
- Baa baa black sheep
- Humpty Dumpty
- Jack and Jill
- Three blind mice
- Mary, Mary, quite contrary
- The Wheels on the bus
The nursery rhymes above are rhymes that I am familiar with and used as a child, but I do think that they haven't got enough movement to them and the movement is something I also wanted to focus on, rather than just getting them to sing, I wanted to get them to dance and move too.
I found a great website which had videos and rhymes which I looked at and I'm going to choose one from here: http://www.myvoxsongs.com/my-vox-songs-cartoon-videos-nursery-rhymes.html
ABOUT OTHER GROUPS
I looked into some nursery rhymes to look at what kinds of things I could teach them. The reason I chose to do a nursery rhyme because I think it is something that really works with children. I have looked into other musical clubs for children and noticed that they use nursery rhymes a lot as they are a great way with connecting with children. Musical activities improve all aspects of early learning.
I looked at a club called 'Monkey Music' which is held all over the country, there is one held in my local community, Henley. http://www.monkeymusic.co.uk/
The reason I chose to look into other children's workshops because I thought it could give me some ideas and help me plan my workshop, also give me some ideas on what kinds of nursery rhymes and songs young children of today are into.
ABOUT HARPSDEN HOPPERS MOTHER AND TODDLER GROUP
Harpsden hoppers the mothers and toddlers group has been around for about 3 years. It is held by two women, they get a a big help from other mums who attend this group.This group is held every Friday in a hall in Harpsden (Henley). The hall is in a lovely area, in the country side with beautiful environments, surrounded by farms and animals, a great place for young children. The class starts at 10.30am and it finishes at 12.00pm. The members of this group are extremely close, The cost of this class is £3.50 per group, this small fee pays for the rental of the hall and also goes to treats for the class, things like biscuits, juice, tea, coffee, and the arts equipment, things like paints, glue and play-dough.
Harpsden Hoppers are very keen to raise money for charity and love to see the children enjoying themselves, dress up, and make them feel involved in these charity events.
LESSON PLAN
4-5 minutes
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Run around the room to
get heart beat flowing, small clapping exercises/dance to get them prepared
and used to copying me as they will need to do this when learning the nursery
rhyme-to get them used to this I'm going to get them to play 'Simon Says' for
a couple of minutes which will get them used to copying me
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1 minute
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I want to run this exercise sat/stood in a circle as it makes it feel
more relaxed and close, after the warm up I'll get them in a circle
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Introduce the nursery rhyme, ask if any of them know it if they do
then bring them to the front (near me) so they can help any others that
aren't so aware of it, this will also be giving them children praise and
straight away making them feel positive about this activity and will
naturally make them want to be involved.
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(5-10 minutes)
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Start teaching them the song/rhyme, breaking it down bit by bit so
they are familiar with it. Keep going over it a few times to make sure they
comfortable with it and know what they're doing.
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(10-15 minutes)
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Once we've been through that several times and checked they're all
okay with it, I will then introduce the simple movements.
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2 minutes
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Once completed them to cool down
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I don't want this task to go on for too long, overall about 25 minutes.
AIMS
- To get them all involved and participating in some way. I understand they're young so they may not have my full attention, and say for example I say to clap my hands and they smack they're knees or the floor I will accept that as that's their way of interpreting it and they're still listening and getting involved/trying. I will encourage them and let them embrace how they're doing the task.
- Get the whole group to have learnt what I am teaching/along the lines.
- Make them excited and happy and wanting to join in.
I have been thinking about it and think it would be a good idea to choose a couple of nursery rhymes because I think just doing one they will learn it very quick as they may even already know it, and they are used to singing nursery rhymes so I think that they will pick it up very quickly. If it does take the whole lesson to finish one nursery rhyme then that's fine, it's just in case they do finish it quickly and then at least I have a backup.
Another idea I thought of was that, if I chose one to sing and then ask them what their favourite nursery rhyme is and they can choose one and we will do that, and perhaps they can even teach me it. I think getting them involved and letting them help choose what song to sing this will make them more enthusiastic and want to join in.
Another idea I thought of was that, if I chose one to sing and then ask them what their favourite nursery rhyme is and they can choose one and we will do that, and perhaps they can even teach me it. I think getting them involved and letting them help choose what song to sing this will make them more enthusiastic and want to join in.
The nursery rhymes that I have chosen are:
- Wheels on the bus
- He's got the whole world in his hands
I chose these 2 nursery rhymes in particular because they both have actions to them and I also think they may be familiar with them.
Lyrics for Wheels on the bus
The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round,
The wheels on the bus go round and round, all through the town.
The wipers on the bus go swish swish swish, swish swish swish, swish swish swish,
The wipers on the bus go swish swish swish, swish swish swish, all through the town.
The people on the bus go chat chat chat, chat chat chat, chat chat chat,
The people on the bus go chat chat chat, all through the town.
The horn on the bus goes beep beep beep, beep beep beep, beep beep beep,
The horn on the bus goes beep beep beep, all through the town.
The babies on the bus go waa waa waa, waa waa waa, waa waa waa,
The babies on the bus go waa waa waa, all through the town.
Lyrics for He's got the whole world in his hands
He's got the whole world in his hands,
He's got the whole world in his hands,
He's got the whole world in his hands,
He's got the whole world in his hands.
He's got my brothers and my sisters in his hands,
He's got my brothers and my sisters in his hands,
He's got my brothers and my sisters in his hands,
He's got the whole world in his hands.
He's got the sun and the rain in his hands,
He's got the moon and stars in his hands,
He's got the wind and the cloud in his hands,
He's got the whole world in his hands.
He's got the oceans and the seas in his hands,
He's got you and me in his hands,
He's got the whole world in his hands.
He's got everybody here in his hands,
He's got everybody there in his hands,
He's got everybody everywhere in his hands,
He's got the whole world in his hands.
PRACTICE RUN AND OBSERVATION- 08/03/13
Me and Daisy went to Harpsden Hoppers today to see how the group works, what they get up to and to give us an idea and a practice run of what we will be doing.
It was a great experience and I'm really glad we got a chance to try it out first, because it has let me look at my original lesson plan and change it, which I definitely need to do as I found my lesson plan wasn't really going to work.
Not only did we help them with the sing-a-long we also helped with arts and crafts, play time, preparing snacks and tidying away.
What I need to change...
As the children there were very young and their attention span is very short. I figured it will be very hard to teach them something brand new because I noticed that they wasn't interested in learning something new and they didn't tend to listen when we tried to introduce other songs. I was thinking I could sing them a song they already know but introduce new movements and get them to copy me. I also found that in my lesson I said I'd only do one or two songs, I will need to do more than that, we did about 6 or 7 on Friday and had children coming up asking you to sing other songs they knew.
Songs they enjoyed...
- Row row row your boat
- Wheels on the bus
- He's got the whole world in his hands
There was a few songs that I didn't really know very well so for next Friday I'm going to learn them so I can sing ones that they enjoy.
Routine of Harpsden Hoppers
Routine of Harpsden Hoppers
Above is where you sign in and pay when you arrive, altogether there was about 40 children. It starts at half 10 and finishes around 12. The first week we did it the week after was red nose day so they put out a sign just to let the parents know. The week we will hold the actual workshop will be red nose day.
Above is them having play time and doing arts and crafts.
Whilst the children are playing and doing activities we prepared food, things like fruit, biscuits and juice, and tea and coffee for the parents. The children have to have fruit before they have treats to ensure they are eating healthily first. The parents don't have biscuits until the children have theirs either.
The week we did the work shop it was red nose day so there was a cake sell, above are the cakes that got made. We raised about £120 and that will go to comic relief, and £35 will go to the rental of the hall.
15/03/13- evaluation of this workshop.
VIDEO FOOTAGE OF WORKSHOP- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P0SVLSXWgQ
Today I went to Harpsden Hoppers and did the actual workshop. The original plan for this was I'll do 15 minutes or so and then Daisy will do hers for about the same time limit. We found that it didn't go to plan at all, and I'm going to find another workshop to do.As they were very young and I personally don't think the fact that their parents were there helped at all, it was very difficult to control them, and it would have been even harder to do this just on our own. I do feel like it helped me for next time though so I will know more what to do. The children there didn't want to learn anything new because they are very young I feel that they only wanted to do songs they were familiar with so perhaps doing it with children slightly older this will help much more.
What went well...
VIDEO FOOTAGE OF WORKSHOP- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P0SVLSXWgQ
Today I went to Harpsden Hoppers and did the actual workshop. The original plan for this was I'll do 15 minutes or so and then Daisy will do hers for about the same time limit. We found that it didn't go to plan at all, and I'm going to find another workshop to do.As they were very young and I personally don't think the fact that their parents were there helped at all, it was very difficult to control them, and it would have been even harder to do this just on our own. I do feel like it helped me for next time though so I will know more what to do. The children there didn't want to learn anything new because they are very young I feel that they only wanted to do songs they were familiar with so perhaps doing it with children slightly older this will help much more.
What went well...
- They all seemed to really enjoy it and they all got involved and were having a nice time.
- I knew most of the songs they wanted to so it was good that I could sing with them when they were asking for certain songs.
- I think we had good communication with them and spoke to them directly asking them what kind of things they were into and what they wanted to do, in some ways this could have been a mistake as they can take it the wrong way, as in them thinking they are in charge of what we do.
- I think because at the beginning of the session we asked them what songs they wanted to do, I think this was a mistake straight away because it made them feel as if they were in charge of the session and they could decide what was going to happen. We should have showed them more that we were in charge.
- We didn't really tell them what the aim of the session was. We should have had an actual plan of what particular songs we was going to do/the order, but it would have been difficult to do this because they were more interested in requesting songs and we noticed they got very stressed when the songs they wanted to do didn't get chosen. This made it too hard to even try and teach them something new.
- I think another reason why it didn't go completely to plan is that the children did have a lot of activities to do before and by this point they had used a lot of their energy and they had lost concentration, so I think finding a place where we can do the workshop where there's more of a relaxed environment.
- I don't think my lesson plan was right, but it's a good thing that I have tried it out because now I know, but children at that age range I think I just needed a basic structure because things change depending on the personalities on the children and their ability. I don't think that I needed to spend as much time as I did on each thing.
I enjoyed the experience and think it will make it better for next time as I'll know what I'm doing more and will be more confident. I also know what to expect next time and I have more of an idea of what to do. I don't feel as if I controlled the children as well as I could have, I think it was quite intimidating having the mothers there watching us too, perhaps doing it at a nursery it will be much more laid back and I will be able to take charge more as the parents won't be there to be sitting with their kids. I think I could have dealt with the children better, when they were playing up I think we should have addressed this, but as I said before with the mums being there it was quite difficult to take charge of their children in front of them.
What I want to change for next time...
- Let the children know exactly what will be happening during the workshop so they understand that I am leading it.
- I want an older age of children, perhaps 4/5+
- Research nursery rhymes/what songs/musical activities they like doing (I think doing the workshop I have done at Harpsden Hoppers has given me a good idea on what kinds of songs children enjoy but if I'm wanting to do it for children a little older then the song choices may change)
- Stick to my lesson plan.
- Perhaps a bit more enthusiasm, I think next time I will because I now know what to expect.
- In my lesson I put that I will get them to warm up because I thought it would encourage them more where as I don't think they actually need to as they are very energetic anyway so next time I'm going to miss this out.
Interview with Laura, who runs the mother and toddlers group. (Daisy interviewed Clare who also runs it)
Questions
1. Why do you run this mother and toddlers group ?
2. Are the parents helpful ?
3. How long has 'Harpsden Hoppers' been going on for ?
4. Do you have any children yourself ?
5. Is the club expensive to run ?
Answers
1. I'm a mum of 4 myself and just really enjoy being around kids and setting up activities to do as I know quite a lot from my experience of being a mum. I do a lot of volunteering as well as this and love to help others.
2. The parents are okay on average they sometimes are a bit chatty but I would say they do help to keep their children behaving well.
3. About 3 years.
4. Yeah I have 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls, my 2 girls come to the group with me.
5. The rental of the hall has gone up over the years, it's £35 now. I wouldn't say it's overly expensive but considering to start off it was about £8 and it has gone up an incredible amount.
Questions
1. Why do you run this mother and toddlers group ?
2. Are the parents helpful ?
3. How long has 'Harpsden Hoppers' been going on for ?
4. Do you have any children yourself ?
5. Is the club expensive to run ?
Answers
1. I'm a mum of 4 myself and just really enjoy being around kids and setting up activities to do as I know quite a lot from my experience of being a mum. I do a lot of volunteering as well as this and love to help others.
2. The parents are okay on average they sometimes are a bit chatty but I would say they do help to keep their children behaving well.
3. About 3 years.
4. Yeah I have 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls, my 2 girls come to the group with me.
5. The rental of the hall has gone up over the years, it's £35 now. I wouldn't say it's overly expensive but considering to start off it was about £8 and it has gone up an incredible amount.
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