Recognizing Musical Talent in Your Child while Computational Performing

Identify and develop the musical talent in your child while performing computationally

Recognizing musical talent in your child while computational performing in home environment.This activity will empower your child to explore design thinking and computational thinking concepts and practices that are the foundation for acting, singing, and dancing.

How to Play

Time to invite guest while grandparents seeing their grandchildren to perform! In this activity, you and your children will perform together. Besides, one of your children will be the director to tell you and your other child what to do step by step. Pick one of your children as a director to manage the musical and another child as an actor with you to dance, sing, and act. How exciting it is for parents and grandparents to design their own musical with child.

Step 1: Going with your child to see a musical

When considering fun things to do with your child, one of the most exciting options is acting, dancing, and singing together. How about creating a musical home theatre?

Take your child to see an exciting live show or watch the filmed musical performance from your home.

It is a great opportunity to go to the musical with your little one to observe acting, dancing, and singing. Go to any musical that your child is highly interested in seeing from theatre or watching from your home.

Ask questions after the musical, for example, which character is his/her most favorite. If she/he wants to act, which actor/actress he/she is willing to perform. Why? Would he/she prefer to sing or act if he/she has a chance to perform.

Step 2: A fun interview for character analyses

Interview with your child about the actor he/she is interested in or like the most while seeing the musical.

While interviewing with your child, start asking questions about the character. Where character grew up, what he/she likes or dislikes, and his/her favorite jokes in the story.

For example, if you have seen with your child Shrek, Annie, or the Lion King, ask questions about the main characters or the characters she/he really likes and is interested in dancing, acting, or singing like.

If your child struggled to come up with answers on his/her own. So you should feed him/her some of the character’s features, and tell the story from the beginning.

As your child gave responses back, you point out what other questions you could ask. Like, would you like to sing like Annie and her friends? Or what does that song sound like?

Step 3: Imaging the story and rehearsal time

As you're listening your child, brainstorming along together, talk through, what are the usual things that you hear, saw, and observe?

- How many characters were there?

- Are characters running around while singing and dancing?

- Did you pick up any words from characters?

- Were there any bad characters in the show? Who were they?

Talk through with your child about what the most memorable act, song, and dance that he likes and remembers.

While your child creates the story, write it down or encourage your child to draw the story on the piece of papers. When the story is ready, rehearsal time.

Encourage your child to talk through what dance moves they're doing, and what will come next. Get them to sing, dance, and act in order, while still having lots of fun, and looking very silly in a musical home before the big audience participants following day.

Step 4: Creating a musical home setting

When the story is ready, time to invite guest while grandparents seeing.

It is going to be so much! It is time to perform together with your children. You also need one director, pick one of your children as a director to manage the musical.

Allow one of your child to be the director. Like programmer who programs robot what to do step by step.

Your child might be saying that he/she is shy, even though he/she knew everybody well. So you build him/her a little stage to perform, with sunglasses that would save him from having to make eye contact with you and siblings.

That helped him get over the shyness hump when he was is singing, acting, and dancing. For example, sing along to "Hard Knock Life". Improv if your children even he/she doesn’t follow the script or drawings. Allow your children to act naturally.