Children's Rainbow Village Family Childcare

Music is a part of education that tends to be forgotten, however the concepts through music are important to learning. Music includes concepts such as developing listening skills, builds memory through repetition, develops aesthetic senses, stimulates creativity, expresses feelings and emotions, explores rhythm, increases vocabulary, and provides an opportunity to discriminate sound and pitch.

 

We explore these concepts through simple songs, transition songs, finger plays, exploring musical instruments, listening to a variety of music, using music with movement in order to explore space, develop communication and listening skills, increase sensory awareness and express themselves through rhythm, gesture, time and space.

 

Young children in our group enjoy nursery rhymes which provide different qualities of tone, varying pitches and rhythmic movements. Chants bring volume, rhythm, beat and gives children the opportunity to explore rhyming words and language play. The children also enjoy songs and chants in which they move their bodies such as the song Head  Shoulders Knees and Toes which brings awareness to their body. Using musical instruments is lots of fun, what seems very noisy slowly turns into experiencing beat, rhythm and pitch. We explore music together and have opportunities to explore independently.