Singing
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Evidence
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5626863/
Elisabeth Dumont, Elena V. Syurina, Frans J. M. Feron, and Susan van Hooren
Music interventions are often said to have an influence on motor, language, social, cognitive, and academic abilities. Music may play an important role in meeting a child's educational needs as it provides a means of self-expression, giving the child an outlet for feelings and emotions. Music, aside from being a source of enjoyment, is also a means of communication with others.
Education
Singing is a great way to promote speech and language development and emotional development. It can encourage a child to express their emotions and increase their ability to communicate. Most children do not see singing as work so can be used as a tool to teach English, numeracy, languages in preschool years. Also singing in a group can help children make friends. Singing also helps with their physical development as it will help them dance alone to songs.
Children also love listening to the same song over and over and since they love repetition songs can be great for teaching new skills. Songs can be used repeatedly to teach the alphabet, colours, numbers and shapes.
When a child learns something new through singing their confidence improves as they know they have accomplished something, and they will feel good about themselves.
Empowerment
Parents and educators should sing songs to children slowly and clearly in a confident manner and use props to support the songs. If adults are having fun, children are more likely to respond, and it creates a close relationship between adult and child.
Useful Links
https://www.busybees.edu.au/the-benefits-of-music-in-early-childhood/
https://www.firstfiveyears.org.au/early-learning/music-a-key-to-childhood-learning
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