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Music and Movements Enjoyment and Value For Children

Music and movement provide numerous cognitive, physical, and social-emotional benefits for children. Music trains important listening skills while also being a creative outlet that helps children express themselves. Movement develops motor skills, balance, coordination and overall health as children dance, jump, and engage their bodies to music. When combined, music and movement stimulate the brain, improve memory and language development, and allow children to experience focused learning and development of their imagination in a fun, engaging way.

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Music and Movements Enjoyment and Value For Children

Music and movement provide numerous cognitive, physical, and social-emotional benefits for children. Music trains important listening skills while also being a creative outlet that helps children express themselves. Movement develops motor skills, balance, coordination and overall health as children dance, jump, and engage their bodies to music. When combined, music and movement stimulate the brain, improve memory and language development, and allow children to experience focused learning and development of their imagination in a fun, engaging way.

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MUSIC AND MOVEMENTS

ENJOYMENT AND VALUE FOR CHILDREN


What is Music?

• 1.Music is a language, and children are oriented toward learning language.


• 2.Music's melodic and rhythmic patterns provide exercise for the brain and help develop
memory.
• 3.Music is perfectly designed for training children's listening skills. Good listening skills and
school achievement go hand in hand.
• 4.Music is a creative experience which involves expression of feelings. Children often do not
have the words to express themselves and need positive ways to release their emotions.
• 5.Music is a social activity which involves family and community participation. Children love to
sing and dance at home, school, and at church.

What is movement?

• An act of changing physical location or position.


• Ex: dancing, swaying, jumping etc.

Value of Music

1. Overall health
Movement is important for developing strength in their bones and muscles, developing their blood
circulation and overall health.

2. Co-ordination
Through songs which require movement or specific actions, children learn to co-ordinate their hands,
feet and bodies in actions that are not normally part of everyday life, but can help develop extensive
connections across their brain.
Songs with a beat or lyrics which encourage children to walk, hop, jump, gallop, skip, crawl, stamp, or
creep all help develop their motor skills, balance and co-ordination.

3. Feeling good
Music motivates kids to move. Up-tempo music is energizing and fun and movement associated with
that music oxygenates their brains, and pumps blood round their bodies making them feel good.

4. Body awareness & balance


Songs which ask kids to swing, stretch, bend, twist and spin help to develop their body awareness and
balance.

5. Language development
By immersing children in musical activities, they start to develop their language skills too.
Children’s songs often have repeated phrases and use rhyme, which makes them easier for young kids
to remember.
6. Memory
Musical activities are multi-sensory and because they involve vision, hearing and movement, so many
brain areas are involved.
There are lots of sequences in music too, whether they are words, rhythms, melodies or actions and
these all help to make the memories and learning more lasting than just watching or hearing something.

7. Focused listeners
Musical activities use sound, there are constant cues for the children to notice and react to.
They learn to drive their bodies in movements which match the music, then change them when the
music or the lyrics asks them to.

8. Imagination
Songs which are about pretending to do something or be something help develop kids’ imagination as
well as language associated with that topic.
Songs can also help children to visualize what they’re singing about.

9. Stimulation
Music and movement combined are a great way to stimulate young kids.

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