Why Should We Spend Time Helping Preschoolers Discover Music? Part 1
Here are a few important reasons:
- Dancing to music and making music helps release stress and energy.
- Music gives children a way to express their emotions. They're full of emotions they can't express and dancing around to music is more fun than dealing with a temper tantrums.
- Music makes learning fun! it's instantly a fun game or an exciting activity.
- Learning music teaches listening skills. It encourages the ability to listen effectively and concentrate. Songs encourage children's speech and auditory discrimination. Through music, children learn tempos, dynamics, and melodies. Children experience soft sounds, loud sounds, fast music and slow music. They are learning to listen and comprehend.
- Music provides a pleasant background for regular activities. It aids in their relaxation, resting and learning better.
- Music helps develop children’s language skills. Singing songs with children helps them develop those needed early literacy skills. Rhythms in speaking sentences, clapping hands and saying a sentence at the same time, stamping feet and marching and using rhythm instruments develops important pre-reading skills. The more music the children have in their lives, the better they will speak and read.
- Music helps develop children's self-esteem. Music is non-judgmental. There is no right or wrong, it just is what it is. Listening to different types encourages creativity, self-confidence, and curiosity.