Using Our Music Curriculum as a Teaching Tool
Research in education shows that multi-sensory teaching produces the best learning. Teaching communication skills and social-emotional strategies through a music curriculum is consistent with these theories. The more senses we use, the deeper the learning!
Musical Moments™ lessons use auditory, visual, kinesthetic and tactile modes of learning through listening, singing, graphic posters, songs with lyrics, coloring pages and movement. New and familiar melodies are taught with social-emotional concepts imbedded in the lyrics. Some of the songs included in our music curriculum include; This Little Light of Mine, Count on Me, Little Bird, Brave, and Keep on the Sunny Side.
The reason a music curriculum works so well for any type of memory storage is that a song is broken down into memorable segments with rhythm and rhyme. The key to storing information in a child’s long term memory is rehearsal.
– Colin Rose, Accelerated Learning