- Music ignites all areas of child development: intellectual, social and emotional, motor, language, and overall literacy. Music improves the ability of the body and mind to work together. Exposing children to music during early development helps them learn the sounds and meanings of words.
- For children, music helps strengthen memory skills. Our brain learns through patterns – learning to store information in patterns with strong associations is the first step toward developing your brains untapped ability.
- Songs that involve counting, spelling, or remembering a sequence of events helps to connect learning and most importantly makes it FUN!
- There are children who can achieve success in music who may have difficulty with other areas of the curriculum.
- Music releases tension, increases endorphin’s (which rush around your body when you sing which is linked to our sense of emotional well-being), reduces stress, lowers blood pressure, relieves anxiety, increases energy and improves recall. Music makes people smarter!
- Music experiences combine aural, visual and kinaesthetic ways of learning.
- Listening skills are developed through music.
