Moving to the Music

I like the article Music, Movement, and, Make-Beleive in the Preschool Classroom. It gave great strategies for incorporating music and movement into children's day.

I would have liked the article to discuss the benefits of children moving to music. Why music and movement are essential for young children? How it improves self-esteem and helps children to develop social skills. And that movement with peers and teachers helps preschoolers focus on teamwork, communication, mutual respect, and trust in others and simply encourages more positive social encounters with those around them. The article seems to be geared toward parents, but it sounds like it was more for educators.

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Strategies to use in your classroom. This teacher gives us some ideas to get our kiddos engaged in music and movement.

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The video Nature Jam's PrescJam'sProdigies Pilot-Sweet Beets-Rhythm Lesson and Song for Kids is excellent for children in Music, Movement, and Make-Believe. The children are learning about rhythm and using their bodies to make music while dancing to the beat. They are learning to create an expression using the body as a percussion instrument. They are also learning about rhythmical pulse, which is related to science, and rhythm patterns, which are related to mathematics which connect this to STR²EAM. The beet and the cherry bouncing to the beat incorporate the make-believe aspect of the video. Adding children to the video would have made it a little more engaging for children. An extension to address all STR²EAM concepts would be science, hearing music coming out of a radio is experiencing frequency, technology using a sound beat app to make beats, reading learning to read music, religion singing praises to God, engineering creating musical instruments, art draw pictures of the music they hear, and mathematic counting the beats in the song.

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This video will get the children moving and singing.

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Reflecting on the story, Violet's Music is about a girl who loves to make music all day. It sets a reading focus for children to listen to all the different ways Violet makes music throughout the story. Science can be incorporated by teaching the children that Violet played with different objects throughout the story, making sounds that vary in volume (loud and soft) and pitch (high and low). Violet created instruments out of all types of materials, such as paper, glitter, glue, and a racket that can be connected to STR²EAM. An extension to address all STR²EAM concepts would be science exploring how to view sound, technology using karaoke machines, reading the children can use sequencing to retell the story, religion violet had faith that she would find others that love music, engineering creating musical instruments, art play music, and the children draw what they hear. Mathematic counting musical instrument Violet played in the story. I believe I will be adding this one to my book collection.