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Children
very often feel bombarded with too much information. One strategy that
children employ for dealing with this is to sieve incoming information
and focus only on what they know they can understand easily.
Very
often a teacher will have the impression that a child is paying attention
and understanding what is being explained, only for it to become apparent,
later, that things have not been understood. For this reason, when I designed
Playing With Colour, it was my intention to present the child only with
elements that could be clearly explained and understood. For this reason
I do not introduce clefs until book 2. In book 1, a picture of the right
or left hand is used in place of the clef. This also avoids any confusion
between right and left. Bar lines are introduced only after a clear explanation
of the use of duple and triple time. Time signatures have been simplified
in order to avoid the problems of explaining the purpose of the lower
number. Although the correct terms are used for note values, the terms
walking notes, waiting notes and jogging notes are also used to simplify
the understanding of rhythm and pulse.
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