Movement and Music EC360 Assignment 4

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Madisyn Reem AC1907189 Movement and Music EC360 Assignment 4 March 24, 2022 Part 1 Movement and music are both extremely integral parts of human development. These two subjects help to ignite every area of child development, the cognitive, physical, and socio- emotional aspects in particular. This also helps the body and mind work together and has multiple positive effects on early childhood aged children in the various areas of development. There are three positive effects that movement and music have on young children and the areas of development are Cognitive, Physical, and Socioemotional. Cognitive Movement plays an extremely important role in language development since early communication is completely physical and only consists of only gestures and expressions. This also helps to expand children’s early vocabularies through introducing children to simple verbs and nouns. Music education builds listening and auditory processing skills, promotes memory and recall, strengthens executive functions, the sets of cognitive abilities that control planning, organizing, goal formation, and many more skills. Due to this, children grow to become creative thinkers, their memory grows sharper, brain recognition is developed, and spatial reasoning is enhanced when music and movement are involved (Hatter, 2015). Another benefit is the fact that

music helps infants prepare for language development. Music is a language in and of itself that helps to enhance the abilities of children, and all individuals, who may struggle with the expression of verbal thinking and communication. Music can give those people who struggle with verbal communication an alternate route of expressing themselves and this can positively affect cognitive development (Rauscher, 2003). Physical Musical activities often provide children with important experiences that may help them develop their physical coordination. When children move and dance to music, play instruments, and use props or puppets, this provides children of every age with a chance to improve their gross and fine motor skills. By listening to different beats and rhythms, a child’s ability to throw, catch, leap, or jump can also be improved (Bailey, 2012). A benefit to music and movement activities is that they provide wonderful entertainment and enjoyment to children, as well as any onlookers that are present. There is great pleasure involved with music and movement, and that is something that all children should be able to experience because through moving and experiencing happiness, children will develop into physical and mentally healthy adults. Children move their bodies, toes, feet, legs, fingers, hands, and arms to a beat that they hear, and the rhythm increases stimulation to their developing brains and muscles. Songs that have motions will help children practice their fine-motor coordination. When a child performs the finger motions to a song such as “The Itsy-Bitsy Spider” or a finger play like “The Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed” the child gets practice working on their hand and finger control. Hand and finger control is a necessary skill writing and handling small

objects. Dancing to music can also help children gain control over their arms and legs. Movement skills that are learned in the early childhood years build the foundation for almost all physical activities later in life (Bailey, 2006). Socioemotional Edwards (2011) stated that “Music and movement are good partners when attempting to comfort a child.” Due to this, early experiences with music often provides some therapeutic benefits, since music can be an antidote to stress as well as aid the brain in developing structure (Healy, 2010). Also, music helps in create and manipulating people’s moods. Music can make children feel peaceful, happy, sad, scared, and angry. Music also “has the ability to relax, give pleasure, irritate and deafen us, stimulate, excite, make us feel happier or sadder” (Federico, 2002, p. 534). Another point is that music often links children to their cultural heritage, helping them to develop and acquire cultural beliefs and values. There have been studies that show that children who are involved in dance and musical groups are able to build relationships, grow more confident, and make better friendships. These children are also able to develop numerous social skills, which will eventually boost and aid in the development of self-esteem and self- concept.

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