C. Choose those pupils to interpret a song to whom it seems to appeal most.
Method of Procedure
I. A. 1. Do you remember, children, that I promised you a great surprise this morning? Well, this is it.
2. One day, not long ago, Miss S., Miss T., and I were talking over our program for the May Festival, and we decided that the little people did not have enough to do.
The first-grade children are to play a little story, and our two grades, you know, are to sing The Little Princess—so we thought that the second grade ought to have a little part of its own. Now what do you think it is to be? I am going to tell you.
3. We are going to make our own little dance to the music of Das Pferdchen. Don’t you think that will be very interesting?
1. When we made the tunes for our songs last winter, what did the music always have to tell?
Just so, as we make our dance to-day, it must tell the same story as the folk song.
2. Let us sing one of our little songs that we have known for a long time, and see if we can tell, in a dance, how that makes us feel.
Different children may here give different, individual interpretations. Encourage much freedom.