why early childhood music

Why Early Childhood Music?

Numerous parents enroll their young children in music classes. It is a fun and wonderful way to spend time together, and since children are innately musical, it is an activity to which they are naturally drawn. But are you aware of all the benefits that music has to offer your child? The following is an excerpt of an article recently presented in Early Childhood Connections, a journal for early-childhood educators.

Music is a language, and children instinctively recognize spoken language as communication.

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 ABCs without the ABC song?

Music is an aural art and young children are aural learners. Since hearing is fully mature before birth, infants begin absorbing the sounds of their environment before birth.

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 attraction to patterns, the ear’s lead in initiating communication, the voice’s response to sounds, as well as the eye-hand coordination associated with playing musical instruments.

Making music is a creative experience that involves expression of feelings. Children often do not have the words to express themselves and need positive ways to release their emotions.

Music transmits culture and is an avenue by which beloved songs, rhymes, and dances can be passed down from one generation to the next.

Music is a social activity that involves family and community participation. Children love to sing and dance at home, school, and at church.

Best of all, unlike cribs, strollers, and clothes, children never outgrow music and all its benefits. Music has something special for each child – no matter his/her age. As you think about your child’s activities for this summer and for next year, keep this in mind and plan to make room in your schedule for music.

Coppell Conservatory selected the MusikGarten program because it:

> Nurtures the parent-child bond through shared musical activities

> Stimulates fine motor skills through activities such as finger games and gross motor skills through dancing and marching

> Awakens natural music abilities

> Develops the ear through listening and the voice through singing

> Enhances language development and pre-literacy skills through rhyme, rhythm, and drama

> Promotes school readiness

> Prepares for instrumental lessons

> Musically guides your child from infancy to beyond the age of 5

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