Innovating Kindergarten Singing Teaching: The Path of Ethnic Culture Inheritance in the Yunnan Children’s Song Guessing Tune

Abstract

The Guessing Tune is a Yunnan children’s song, which is an outstanding representative of ethnic folk music. With its unique artistic charm and profound cultural connotations, it can serve as high-quality material for kindergarten singing activities. This paper designs a teaching activity plan for singing in kindergarten senior classes using Guessing Tune as the content. The teaching plan covers activity objectives, preparation, key and difficult points, as well as detailed activity procedures. From vocal warm-ups and song introduction, to appreciation and learning the song, then to consolidation practice and creative singing, each step is closely connected and progresses step-by-step. It fully utilizes various teaching methods such as graphic notation, AI animations, and dialect recitation, combined with diverse forms like group call-and-response singing, lyric extension, and lyric imitation. Based on this, the teaching design strategies for each segment are analyzed, providing specific cases and design ideas for the effective implementation of ethnic music in kindergarten singing activities. This can serve as a reference for the course Music Education and Activity Guidance for Preschool Children in higher teacher education preschool education programs and for frontline kindergarten teachers.