Perspectives: A Publication of the early Childhood Music and Movement Association
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A 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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Fall 2011 Issue
Quotes
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.
Educators are reminded that children’s growth and development cannot thrive in compartmentalized, isolated instructional activities that separate the benefits of expressiveness through music and movement from the academic core of their learning
Music may not only affect neural development but may also contribute to increases in non-musical cognitive skills such as visual-spatial abilities
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.
The arts hold the soul of our culture and the heartstrings of our children…Let all the arts ignite your music, and your music teaching will be ignited too!
Like sunsets, snowflakes, and other miracles of nature, no two children are exactly alike; and learning is a process, not a race.
Listening starts to take shape well before birth and it plays an essential role on the child's sensorimotor, social-emotional, and cognitive development.
Today's children are tomorrow's leaders.
It’s almost impossible to make music with children without moving.
Music can expand and enhance the early childhood curriculum and develop language and literacy skills in young children that are important to later school readiness.
