Singing skills education of five-six year old children

In this work five – six year old children’s singing skills education is analysed. Work with preschoolers has moved to show interest in a musical education problem. Today preschool children’s musical education is becoming especially relevant, it gives an opportunity to unravel child’s musical gift and develop competencies. An individual singing skill development programme has been prepared and it is theoretically reasoned and experimentally proved. Recommendations for artictic education teachers have been prepared. Five – six year old children’s singing skills education pedagogigal presumption has been reasoned theoretically and practically. As a reasearch object five – six year olds’ singing skills have been chosen. With this research I have tried to analyse children��s musical abilities, which determine singing education, unfold pedagogical presumptions of their education. I have analysed Lithuanian and foreign scientific and methodological literature about children’s singing skills education; I have diagnosed five – six year olds’ musical abilities, necessary for singing skills development; ways of pedagogical influence, which encourages singing skills development, have been revealed; singing skills alteration possibilities have been reasoned experimentally. The research hypothesis of this work – five – six year old children’s skills will successfully develop if an educator, choosing the repertoir, considers child’s individual and group’s diapason; singing skill development relates with development of beat feeling; an educator and the family encourages a child to demonstrate his/her singing abilities in public events. Research methods: pedagogical, psychological, analysis of methodological material, observation, conversations with children, a test of musical abilities, pedagogical experiment, qualitative and statistical analysis. With reference to literature analysis, I have found out that children’s singing skill development is based on a set of musical abilities (mastering voice diapason, intonation, beat sensation). During the mentioned above experiment has been stated that average singing ability level is natural for more than a half of children (E and K examined groups), for one third of children a low level has been estimated, and for almost one fifth of all children a high level of musical abilities is natural. The results of pedagogical experiment showed that five – six year old children’s singing skill development programme is effective. Results of experimental group comparing with auditorial group have significally changed (higher results). Research hypothesis has proved out.Švietimo akademijaVytauto Didžiojo universiteta