Perspectives: A Publication of the early Childhood Music and Movement Association
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Journal of the Early Childhood Music & Movement Association, established to provide a network of communication, encourage teacher development, and advocate education of parents, classroom teachers and administrators.
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Winter 2012 Issue
Quotes
Integrating concepts across the arts and disciplines is not just a nice thing to do. It is essential to a child’s holistic way of learning.
Musicing with young children is a noisy process where children's spontaneous vocalizations may be approximations of the music we more knowledgeable music learners provide them.
It’s almost impossible to make music with children without moving.
If parents confidently take risks and incorporate children’s music attempts into their vocal and movement interactive response chain, children’s expressive-music vocabularies become more meaningful to the children.
While important for musical development, steady beat competency has also proven to be extremely important for a child’s development in reading fluency, reading comprehension, language development, math patterning, and sports skills
Children are musical. Children enjoy exploring musical sounds. And, with the right musical experiences children can enjoy creating music that is emotionally satisfying and cognitively challenging.
Children respond to us — even imitate our movements —….
By possessing knowledge about how children develop motorically as well as musically, teachers of young children can engage children in appropriate movement activities and better evaluate children’s movement behaviors.
Like sunsets, snowflakes, and other miracles of nature, no two children are exactly alike; and learning is a process, not a race.
Children need opportunities to play, for it is through play that they develop socially, musically, kinesthetically, and cognitively.
