Rhythm & Rhyme
There are so many benefits to bringing music, rhyme, and rhythm into your young child's life that now you can understand why so many early childhood education programs emphasize music. Plus it has the added advantage of being fun for you and your child. And the best part is that there is no age threshold. You can begin working rhythm and rhyme into your child's life at birth (or even before)!
Both scientists and educators are realizing that early, positive musical experience is uniquely effective in helping children achieve their full potential intellectually, artistically and emotionally.Simply using music on a regular basis with your child, including singing, listening to music, and playing instruments, can reap tremendous benefits. It is important to note that simply listening to music is not enough. Making music is more powerful for children than just listening. It is important for you to provide your child with a solid early childhood education experience that you won't have to trust to chance but it is even more important to foster a love of learning!
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Why is rhythm and rhyme important?
Benefits of music, rhythm and rhyme
The key elements of this include:
* Motivation to learn
* Oral language skills
* Phonological awareness
* Appreciation for literate forms
* Print awareness
* Letter knowledge.
Learning rhythm and rhyme through poems and songs can provide children with crucial experience in all these areas.
For example, you probably never thought learning movement songs can help improve your child's vocabulary and offer preparation for future reading.
How?
Movement songs help children gain an understanding of concepts such as up/down, front/back, and left/right, and add these words to their vocabularies. Understanding these concepts leads to knowledge of how words are read and written on a page.
Songs and poems will also offer your child exposure to the rhythm of the language which will help them read with animation as opposed to a monotone.
Some additional benefits include:
* Extending the neural networks in the brain
* Sound discrimination which leads to spelling success
* Increased vocabulary
* Abstract and spatial reasoning which leads to math success
* Improved coordination
* Better concentration skills
* Sharper memory
* More focused listening skills
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* Improve physical coordination
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* Honing their listening skills
* Improving memory skills
* Aiding language and speech development
* Enhance reasoning skills such as used in math and science
* Providing an outlet for self expression
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ChineseKitesforKids wrote...
What an incredible lens! I am going to lens roll this to my Daycare School Online lens and my Daycare School Activities lens. Thanks so much for sharing. I can really use a lot of these in my home daycare. 5 stars!!
Posted May 27, 2009
C-Joy wrote...
I have found that when my classroom is really loud and unsettled that I can sing to a child or two and it calms the entire room down! I can't imagine teaching or even raising my own child without music.
Posted February 19, 2009
Graceonline wrote...
What a fun and useful lens! Only today I took my nine-month old granddaughter to the library Baby Rhyme Time for the first time. The room was packed with moms, nannies, grandpas and (I'm pretty sure I was the only) one grandma and their charges, newborn to three years old. Our little one has loved books and being read to since she was born, and in her way sings along with me. Thanks to you, I've a treasure-trove of new rhymes and songs to share with her. Thank you so much for doing this lens.
Posted January 29, 2009
ElizabethJeanAllen wrote...
Welcome to The Totally Awesome Lenses Group
Lizzy
Posted January 21, 2009
garywgoldstein wrote...
Such a wonderful lens. I just remembered my childhood experiences. :)
Posted January 20, 2009
Nursery Rhyme
The term nursery rhyme is used for ?traditional' songs for young children in Britain and many English speaking countries, but usage only dates from the nineteenth century and in North America the older ?Mother Goose Rhymes' is still often used.H. Carpenter and M. Prichard, The Oxford Companion to Childrens Literature'' (Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 383.
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