How to use your voice without over using it! A Preschool Teacher’s Guide
- Your voice is your most powerful tool!
- Being excited doesn’t mean raising you voice!
- A whisper can be excited too!
- Lower your
voice from a high to low octave- a high voice strains and is not pleasant to
listen to!
- Be silly with
your voice- use the full range of silly voices and noises. When you say “Reach
down low”, reflect that in your voice!
- Whisper to get
attention- I love to start the class with a sneaky quiet tiptoe to the circle.
- Clap to get
attention: Clapping a rhythm will get their attention as they try to copy it.
- Sing directions
in a chant like way instead of saying them.
- Keep the volume
control handy. If a song is to loud lower it.
- Demo a sequence
without the music- using helpful images and then do it with the music
- Ask them to
sing with you!
- Use your body
to show what to do and keep you words few! If you want the kids to “jump in the
waves”, say “Show me how you can jump”
and pick a word such as “splash”, to repeat and that they can copy so
they are saying it with you!
- Demo raising
hands and taking turns so they all don’t speak at once
- Use gestures to
say what you want. Create a gesture for stop, sit, stand up etc.
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