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Using Music To Promote Learning

Music is thought to teach basic skills such as concentration, counting and listening. Movements of the music promotes knowledge of beats, tones, and rhythm. Music is often used to promote learning because it improves the ability to recall information. An example of using music as a classroom strategy is Kindermusik. Kinermusik International is the world's leading publisher of music and movement curricula for parents and their children, ages newborn to 7 years old (. Through the use of songs and musical instruments, children are taught eye-hand coordination and creativity.

Eye-hand coordination is the connecction between the nerve endings that develop fine motor ability and the brain's collected visual patterns that relate our bodies to our environment-Smart Moves, by Carla Hannaford. Studies show that such eye-hand coordination develops in infancy. We see this every day when a newborn first finds his hand or foot. He sees it first and then watches as it moves.

The creative side of a child can be expressed through his interpretation of the music through movement or playing an instrument or even making up lyrics to songs. He is free to do what he wants. There is no right or wrong way of interpretation.

An educator wants success for the children in their classroom. What better way of making sure a child is successfull than providing the tools in which the child can learn?