Can children recognize the difference between high notes and low notes? We played a game to practice! Stand up if you hear a high note, sit down if you hear a low note. I played the xylophone, and the children gave examples of what the high notes sounded like "birds singing" and "clocks ringing." However, they also thought that the low notes sounded like birds, so then I decided to used my voice. I sang a familiar song "Daddy loves the bear" in operatic style and also in a lower register. We called the higher version the mamma bear version and the lower version the papa bear version. It was clear to me that this helped them recognize the difference as they were standing and sitting at high and low notes, but when I went back to the xylophone, there was confusion all over again !
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