• Movement and Music can help children to develop various skills, such as auditory, motor, cognitive, language, and social skills.

• Movement and Music can foster creativity in children by providing them with opportunities to create and express their own musical and movement patterns, and to appreciate and respond to different musical and movement styles.

• Movement and Music can enhance children’s learning and motivation by making it more fun, engaging, and meaningful.

• Movement and Music can promote children’s cultural awareness and appreciation by exposing them to diverse forms of movement and music and their origins.

• 0-2 years: Provide children with simple musical instruments, such as rattles, bells, or shakers, that they can shake and tap to make sounds. Encourage them to listen and respond to the sounds they make. Praise their efforts and ask them questions about their sounds.

• 2-3 years: Provide children with a variety of songs, such as nursery rhymes, action songs, or counting songs, that they can sing and act out with their voices and bodies. Encourage them to repeat and memorize the words and actions of the songs. Display the lyrics and pictures of the songs and ask them to talk about what they sing and do.

• 3-5 years: Provide children with a music and movement area, such as a corner, a mat, or a circle, that they can use to perform their own music and movement shows. Encourage them to create their own songs, rhythms, and dances for their shows. Ask them to tell a story about their shows and what they represent.

• 6-8 years: Provide children with access to digital technologies, such as tablets, computers, or speakers, that they can use to create and record their own music and sounds, such as beats, melodies, or lyrics. Encourage them to use the features and functions of the technologies to enhance their music and sounds, such as editing, adding effects, or mixing. Ask them to share their music and sounds with others and explain their process and purpose.

Demonstration: Teaching how to do something step by step. Introduces new skills, techniques, or concepts in movement and music.

Play: Allowing students to explore and experiment with different sounds, rhythms, and movements in movement and music. Promotes students’ curiosity, autonomy, and enjoyment.

Imitation: Inviting students to copy and repeat the sounds, rhythms, and movements of the teacher or other students. Develops students’ auditory, motor, and memory skills.

Experimentation: Encouraging students to create and vary their own sounds, rhythms, and movements in movement and music. Fosters students’ imagination, creativity, and expression.

Creation: Providing students with opportunities to compose and perform their own movement and music pieces. Enhances students’ confidence, motivation, and feedback skills.

Project-based learning: Engaging students in authentic and meaningful movement and music projects, such as making instruments, recording songs, or choreographing dances. Helps students develop creative thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.

Language-rhythm connections: Using language, such as poems, songs, or nursery rhymes, to teach and reinforce rhythmic concepts and patterns in movement and music. Supports students’ language, literacy, and musical development.

Movement, movement, movement: Using movement, such as folk dancing, body percussion, or gesture, to teach and reinforce musical concepts and skills in movement and music. Supports students’ physical, emotional, and musical development.