Here are a few reasons why music is important...
Music is a language, and children are oriented toward learning language.
Music evokes movement, and children delight in and require movement for their development and growth.
Music engages the brain while stimulating neural pathways associated with such higher forms of intelligence as abstract thinking, empathy, and mathematics.
Music's melodic and rhythmic patterns provide exercise for the brain and help develop memory. Who among us learned the ABC's without the ABC song Music is perfectly designed for training children's listening skills.
Good listening skills and school achievement go hand in hand. Developmentally appropriate music activities involve the whole child-the child's desire for language, the body's urge to move, the brain's attention to patterns, the ear's lead in initiating communication, the voice's response to sounds.
A simple way to add music and movement is to give each child a long piece of ribbon.
Turn on a familiar song and have them sing and dance to it. Ask them how can they make their ribbon move to the bet and see what happens.
Circle time is a great time to introduce new songs and finger plays.
Here the lids are learning a song about a carrot.
After we go over the words, we sing.
MotherGoose Time also has a fun music and movement video called Dancing Beats.
I love to use it during the winter months when it is cold outside.
The way the children learn new song, new beats and get some wiggles out.
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