Early+Childhood+Music

Early Childhood Education (Position Statement): http://www.menc.org/about/view/early-childhood-education-position-statement

"Music is a natural and important part of young children's growth and development" You really need to allow early interaction with music because early interaction with music positively affects the quality of all children's lives. When children have successful experiences in music it helps all children bond emotionally and intellectually with others through their creative expression in song, rhythmic movement, and listening experiences. "These experiences should be integrated within the daily routine and play of children. In this way, enduring attitudes regarding the joy of music making and sharing are developed."

There should be a music curriculum for young children that should include many opportunities for them to explore sound through singing, moving, listening, and playing instruments and also introductory experiences with verbalization and visualization of musical ideas. This music literature should be of high quality and lasting value, with traditional children's songs, folk songs, classical music, and music from a variety of cultures, styles, and time periods.

Things to know: -All children have musical potential -Children bring their own unique interest and abilities to the music learning environment -Very young children are capable of developing critical thinking skills through musical ideas -Children come to early childhood music experiences from diverse backgrounds -Children should experience exemplary musical sounds, activities, and materials -Children should not be encumbered with the need to meet performance goals -Children's play is their work -Children learn best in pleasant physical and social environments -Diverse learning environments are needed to serve the developmental needs of many individual children <span style="color: #1acbf4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Children need effective adult models

<span style="color: #d5156b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Music Together: <span style="color: #d5156b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">http://www.musictogether.com/file.aspx?id=1000

<span style="color: #d5156b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-All children are musical <span style="color: #d5156b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(Music is a basic skill and it is as natural as walking or talking) <span style="color: #d5156b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-All children can achieve basic music competence <span style="color: #d5156b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-The participation and modeling of parents and caregivers regardless of their musical ability, is essential to a child's musical growth <span style="color: #d5156b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-This growth is best achieved in a playful, non-performance-oriented learning environment which is musically rich yet immediately accessible to the child's-and the adult's-partcipation

<span style="color: #7c13c9; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">*The four questions* <span style="color: #7c13c9; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">*Early childhood music is valuable and necessary because it is a natural part of their development and children can learn many different things through music. <span style="color: #7c13c9; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">*The 4 key points in teaching the philosophy of early childhood music is that all children are musical, all children can achieve basic music competence, the participation and modeling of parents and caregivers regardless of their musical ability, is essential to a child's musical growth, this growth is best achieved in a playful, non-performance-oriented leaning environment which is musically rich yet immediately accessible to the child's and the adult's participation <span style="color: #7c13c9; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">*A child's singing voice is not developed like an adult at the early age they are still trying to learn how to unscramble the words and sounds of the music, later once children learn to talk more and express themselves they also learn how to sing and express themselves through music. <span style="color: #7c13c9; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">*Early childhood classrooms should include music and this means that they should play familiar child songs, folk songs, and many different cultures of songs, children need opportunities to experiment and create their own music.

<span style="color: #7c13c9; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">*Audiation is the process of mentally hearing and comprehending music, even when no physical sound is present.. it is a cognitive process