Music

Music helps children develop social and communication skills. The repetition in songs targets key words, rhyming introducing phonetical awareness (useful for reading) and puts smiles to children’s faces. Two studies found early musical experiences helped children to master pre-reading skills.

 
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Singing songs creates a fun way for joint attention they are also instrumental to developing children’s language and early reading skills. Nursery rhymes scaffold language development with their use of: 

  • Repetition

  • Rhyming 

  • Gestures 

  • Visual cues

  • Onomatopoeia’s

Check out Miss Katie Sings video’s for some fun classics for you to try at home, or you can sign up to her online classes.

 

Bubble Song

If You’re Happy and you Know It

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

 

Stomp Stomp Stomp

Old MacDonald Has a Farm

Brush Your Teeth, Raffi Cover

 

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