O ensino coletivo de ukulele: para alunas do 2° ano do Ensino Fundamental l da escola Maple Bear - AL

Abstract

This paper reports a teaching practice with eight year old children, carried out with students from the 2nd year of elementary school I, from the bilingual institution Maple Bear, AL, in the year 2018. The objective was to synthesize a didactic material in order to to teach ukulele collectively at school, contributing with another tool for teaching music, innovative in Maceió. Its relevance lies in the proposal of the musical instrument, being ideal for a child, due to its characteristics and easy handling. The practices were of simple chord projections, giving the possibility of playing a small children's repertoire of songs in English and Portuguese, also introducing small known melodies and popular singing through tablature. At the end of the activities they performed reasonably well the songs in the repertoire. Coming to the conclusion that the instrument is a great tool to teach music to children, in view of new research development in the instrument as the introduction of music reading.