2. Why is Music so important for children?
Music is important for children because it allows the children to be able to practice important
skills, including thinking, language, motor coordination and understanding emotions.
3. How does music help children and why is it so important
that children to have music time during the day?
• I love seeing my children at the daycare that I work for singing
different songs that I have taught them even once.
• Children are like sponges they soak up everything and even if I don’t
sing certain parts or sentences from the song the children will do for
me. Like for example when I do circle time the children know that we
have a specific song we sing when we have to put our books away for
circle time.
4. Source 1: Music Activities Teach Important Skills to Children
in Child Care
In this article it broke down how music helped children and it broke it down into 5 different compartments. 1.)
Music and Thinking Skills, 2.) Music and Language, 3.) Music and Motor Skills, 4.) Music and Emotions, 5.) Music and
Routines.
1.) For music and thinking they spoke on how it lets the children “learn to pay attention to changes in sound, noting
for examples that certain keys sound deeper than others. Exploring musical instruments also helps children learn
how different instruments work and the sounds they create ("Music Activities Teach Important Skills to Children in
Child Care." EXtension. N.p., 08 Sept. 2015. Web. 17 Feb. 2017.).”
2.) Music and Language is important because it allows the children to practice their language skills and to be able
learn the lyrics to the songs and learning the pronunciation of the words in the songs and being able to recite the
songs without a teachers help.
3.) Music and Motor Skills help children with their fine-motor coordination. For example when we are singing songs
such as “5 green and speckled frogs, five little monkeys, head shoulders knees and toes, etc. All these songs help
the children learn “ a skill necessary for writing and handling small objects. Dancing to music also helps children
perfect their control of their arms and legs("Music Activities Teach Important Skills to Children in Child Care."
EXtension. N.p., 08 Sept. 2015. Web. 17 Feb. 2017.).”
4.) Music and Emotions: listening to music sometimes helps children to sleep, it can also help children express their
feelings when they are angry they can play a certain kind of music to go with it or if they are sad or happy, etc.
5.) Music and Routines: I love to sing to the kids all the time with whatever we are doing in the classroom or even
when we are going to the walk to the park. I also like to ask the children what songs they want to sing. During circle
time instead of asking my children to put their books on the shelf I sing a song “put your books away, put your books
away, on the shelf, on the shelf, everybody everywhere put your books on the shelf.” This helps children with their
daily routines and they know what song goes with what we will be doing next in the day.
5. Source 2: Benefits of Music & Movement
• This article gave many different things that helped children with music and
helping out with gross motor skills.
• "Music brings people together. Through music, children take an inner
experience and move it into a shared creative experience. Group music-
making releases energy which can be channeled in creative, productive
directions. Children learn about themselves and others by playing music
together and by listening to each other — tapping into hidden courage that
can be played out by singing together or discovering the inner resources to
listen quietly to another child's playing (Judi Bosco Board Certified Music
Therapist, "Musikgarten." Benefits of Music and Movement for Children -
Musikgarten. Early Childhood Connections, 2007. Web. 17 Feb. 2017.).”
• “Music engages the brain while stimulating neural pathways associated
with such higher forms of intelligence as abstract thinking, empathy, and
mathematics ("Musikgarten." Benefits of Music and Movement for Children
- Musikgarten. Early Childhood Connections, 2007. Web. 17 Feb. 2017. ).”
6. Source 3: Music Education Can Help
Children Improve Reading Skills
• This article gave a little incite on philosophers and how music helped children.
• “From the time of Plato and Aristotle, music has also been viewed as therapeutic.
Today more than seventy universities offer degrees in music therapy (Greata,
2006). Music helps to create and manipulate moods. It “has the ability to relax,
give pleasure, irritate and deafen us, stimulate, excite, make us feel happier or
sadder” (Federico, 2002, p. 534). With these mood changes also comes
physiological changes to our heartbeats, blood pressure, and breathing (Federico,
2002). As we have learned, through music children not only gain music skills and
appreciation but also enhance cognitive, motor and rhythm, language, social, and
emotional development. While children and adults naturally engage in music, a
well-planned center can enhance their development (Bullard, J. "How the Music
Center Enhances Children's Development." Education.com. 2010, Merrill, an
Imprint of Pearson Education Inc, 26 Jan. 2011. Web. 17 Feb. 2017.)”
• This whole paragraph was very in-depth and helped me learn more about how
music helps anyone and how stimulating it is and music goes way back to Greeks.
7. Summary
• Music is an all around stimulates children, it helps children learn a lot.
• I love music and can see how my children learn many different songs
after being taught to them once or twice they seem to soak up all the
songs and can sing them without my help.
• Reading all three different articles helped me learn more about how
much music helps children.
• I learned how it helps children with cognitive development and how
music can help children express their own feelings with emotional
development.
8. Connections
• All three articles made a connection with a child's developmental
skills and how music can stimulate a child’s physical, language, social-
emotional and cognitive skills.
• They also spoke on how it helps children learn to build their
awareness and self-confidence.
• All three articles spoke on how music helps children with sequence,
patterns, coordination, feelings, cultural, etc.
9. Family Interaction
• I think that parents should always try to sing songs as much
as they can with their children instead of just putting a iPad
or phone on and allowing them to listen to the songs. I love
being able to sing songs to my children when I'm reading a
book or whenever we are transitioning between one
activity to another one.
• Another good thing that family should do is try to find some
books that you can turn into a song or singing songs that
allow you to change the words to the songs with other ones
to help with whatever theme or topic of interest is in the
classroom.
10. References:
• Music Activities Teach Important Skills to Children in Child Care."
EXtension. N.p., 08 Sept. 2015. Web. 17 Feb. 2017
• "Musikgarten." Benefits of Music and Movement for Children -
Musikgarten. Early Childhood Connections, 2007. Web. 17 Feb. 2017.
• Bullard, J. "How the Music Center Enhances Children's Development."
Education.com. 2010, Merrill, an Imprint of Pearson Education Inc, 26
Jan. 2011. Web. 17 Feb. 2017.
