The Power of Music in the Learning Process

Looking for educational, music-related activities to do with your young children on a rainy day? Check out this article from Community Play Things, which also speaks to the importance of music in a child's learning process.

Music is good for your family and the culture

Congratulations! You've enrolled in an early childhood music class! What a significant choice you have made for your child and your family. The songs you sing, the games you play, the stories you tell together not only affect the dynamic of your family, but in the end, affect how culture is transmitted.  The parent/child bond is essential, and its influence can not be underestimated. The games, songs, stories you share with your child create deep, emotional ties that are indelibly etched upon their minds and hearts.  As adults, it will be those songs, stories, etc. that bubble up when they play with their own children. What songs will they sing?  What stories will they tell?  What lullabies will send their children to sleep?

Listen to what Roger H. Brown, president of Berklee School of Music (alma mater of contemporary musicians such as Quincy Jones, Branford Marsalis, Diana Krall and John Mayer) says about Music, Culture and Early Childhood Development:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOM8Z2UQKR4

The Importance of Play Time

Kathy, one of CSA's Early Childhood Music teachers, recently found an interesting article on NPR, an article describing the benefits of the kind of free, imaginative play that children used to engage in with regularity but is no longer as common with today's temptation to overschedule children. Imaginative play is the kind of activity that early childhood music classes encourage and promote.

Click here to read the very informative NPR article that Kathy has shared. Long live play time! :)