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Matching Musical Notes © Beverley Paine, 2005 I first saw and heard this activity when visiting a Montessori Kindergarten about two decades ago. We made up our own version, from memory, when at home, using whatever musical instruments were to hand. The aim of the activity is to prepare the child for music and to improve auditory discrimination of sound, that is, pitch. The Montessori class used 26 bells and a wooden mallet for striking them, together with a silencer for stopping the sound as well as a chart replicating the black and white keys on a piano. We used a child's xylophone, a piano or recorder, and a piano chart that I had made, with the names of the key notes marked in the appropriate spaces. This was mostly for my own use as I was also beginning to learn to read music! April would pick a note from the chart which I would play, and then she would experiment by hitting notes on the xlophone until the notes sounded the same - that is, they were the same pitch. This exercise is quite different from the original Montessori one, but the end result is similar, so we didn't mind. In addition to musical skills, this activity builds maths and language skills, using comparative language such as high, low, higher, lower, highest, lowest; the names of the notes of the scale: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do; or the name of the pitches produced by playing the instruments. We had a box of percussion and home made musical instruments on the shelf that the children had continuous access to and was usually played with for some time after an activity like the one above.
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Pioneering members of the home education movement in Australia, Beverley and Robin Paine are passionate advocates of true educational choice for families. They began homeschooling their children in 1986 and three years later started the South Australian Home Based Learners network.Beverley wrote Getting Started with Homeschooling in 1995-97 and since then continues to write books and booklets on home education. She balances spending time helping home educators with working in her garden and renovating her home, as well as continuing to build her collection of writing on a variety of homeschooling subjects. Beverley maintains an extensive collection of websites as well as several Yahoo groups supporting families teaching their children at home. In 2007 Beverley joined the HEA and became a committee member in 2008: she also edits and produce the HEA Newsletter, HEA magazine, Stepping Stones for Home Educators, annual Resource Directory and other HEA publications. If you'd like to keep in touch with what Beverley is up to her in her life, sign up for the Homeschool Australia Newsletter or visit her Facebook page.