Music

Young children love to sing, make music, and move to the beat. They feel competent when they learn a new song, powerful when they pound a drum or shake a tambourine, and proud when they invent a new dance. As children explore and enjoy music, they can develop skills in math, science, literacy, and social studies. Teachers relate music to diverse subjects and your family can continue this learning at home.

In Together Family Child Care, we play children music from all around the world. When we listen to music by recognizing or creating rhymes we help children learn to match the sounds of words. As we listen to music together, we introduce and talk about new words like rhythm and note. We listen for new words in song lyrics and talk about what they mean to expand vocabulary. We use music to develop math skill by copying patterns in our favorite songs.