Why Music is important for children?

Children learn when they have Fun! Fun! Fun!

Children love having fun, and it is one of the essence for learning. Music will create opportunities for children growing their sense of fun by singing and dancing. Many music research suggest, music and movement, rhythm and dance are key aspects of forming children’s personality (..OR aspects of development of a child’s personality). Music can help unleash children’s playfulness and stretch their potential.

Music allow children to grow their learning dispositions , in other word ‘habit of learning’.

Four emotion-regulatory uses of music were identified: music helped the children to calm down, to keep concentrated and interested, to express and enhance happiness and energy level, and to fantasize through mental imagery. By Suvi Saarikallio

“Music was also very typically used for expressing and enhancing happiness and positive energy. The music used in this purpose was typically described as happy, energetic, rhythmic, and familiar. This type of music use served the purpose of having fun, expressing joy, and sharing happiness with other family members.

Suvi Saarikallio, the professor of music education in Finland university

The power of song to provide meaningful and engaging contexts for language learning and explores innovative ways of enabling learners to make connections through visual, aural, and kinaesthetic responses to song. （By Robyn Trinick, Luama Sauni, and Esther Allen

Song is a key element in a musically enriched learning environment that fosteres feelings of well-being, and enables children to feel connected.

I empower chidren’s potential and possibilities through music experiences. I allow them to explore and discover

There are lots of researches find strong connection between language and music.

Speech Music Link by Carol Beddiss

• Music and speech are complementary systems of communication expressed within a common form of energy — sound. Each system has a strength. Language is a semantically precise form whereas music facilitates social bonds and enables shared emotion. In fact music is sometimes called “the language of the emotions”.
• The positive emotions generated by singing and other musical experiences actually contribute to overall language aquisition. By Robyn Trinick, Luama Sauni, and Esther Allen

To stretch and grow their knowledge and understand the world around them, children develop their learning disposition. Learning dispositions are tendencies to respond in particular ways, which help them to shape their identity as a learner. Things they experience and feel at young age stays with them throughout their life.

When children engage in meaningful music experience, they feel good about themselves, allowing them to develop their confience and …..

Through my music experiences, children will enhance their;

*Creativity