Music Program
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| The Lower School Music Program | ||
By Elisa França The Music and Movement Program follows the Orff and the Kodály approaches to Music Education that introduces children to Music Literacy. It is a developmentally age appropriate program that values the children’s growth physically, emotionally, socially, cognitively and musically with an everyday concern to create an optimal learning environment for each child. The program is based on the “Music and Brain” research that has shown the valuable effects of music on reading and writing, ability for math and thinking process with the early exposition to the process of music making. The children have the opportunity to get into music-making process and to flourish in their total potential as they are exercising the entire brain and stimulating general intelligence. It’s reached through music activity as rhymes, folk-songs, seasonal songs, chants, lullabies, dances, fingerplays, games integrated with movement, play and listening. The program makes learning easier with the use of musical instruments, different props that will help the children to understand what they are doing and will make learning fun. Based on the premise that music is a language that everyone speaks and understands, the Primary years Music Program promotes more effective ways to work with diversity in the classroom. The program values the children’s differences, personality characteristics, learning styles, motivation and preferences. The program has a belief that all the children have the potential to hear, sing, read and write music. |
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