Music & Movement

As children grow in their appreciation of the beauty of music and dance, they acquire a gift that will bring them great pleasure. Music brings another dimension of beauty into our lives. Music and movement benefit a child’s development in many ways. Here are skills that music and movement can help develop:

• Participating in a group
• Social skills
• Express emotions
• Enhance self‐concept by sharing music and dance of each other’s culture
• Refine listening skills‐noticing changes in tempo or pitch
• Awareness of movement and body positions
• Creativity and imagination
• Learn new words and concepts
• Explore cause and effect
• Develop large motor skills
• Improve balance, coordination, and rhythm through dance and movement activities
• Improve small motor skills‐learning finger plays and playing musical instruments