Enhancing Early Childhood Development Through Music and Movement

This essay explores the significant role of music in early childhood education, emphasizing its ability to enhance movement, motor skills, and social development. The author highlights the incorporation of music pieces like Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" to stimulate movement and coordination in children. The rhythm of the music encourages fine and gross motor skills, as well as group interaction, fostering social development. The essay also notes that combining music with movement engages multiple brain regions, integrating looking, listening, and moving for a comprehensive learning experience. The provided reference list supports the claims with research on early childhood music education.

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Music has the power to go beyond words. According to researchers, exposure to music
during the early childhood help children to develop a larger vocabulary, speak in a clearer
manner and strengthen their emotional as well as social skills. One of the music pieces that I
prefer to incorporate in my classroom for encouraging movement is Prookoflev: peter and the
Wolf. The mentioned music piece is roughly 8 minutes long. Children of my class like to move
in the beat of the music piece. The rhythm of the music helps the toddlers to build coronation.
Music encourages children’s inclination to move, developing their fine motor skills and gross
motor skills. I personally have also noticed children to start jumping up and down while listening
the music (Gouzouasis & Ryu, 2015). Music like the mentioned one is developed for children in
order to enhance their muscle development, strengths as well as balance.
Along with their own movement, these types of stimulus music help the children to move
together as a group. This in turn also helped in their social development (Young, 2016).
Movement in music also engages different regions of the brain at one. Music along with
movement also combines looking, listening as well as moving.

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Reference List
Gouzouasis, P., & Ryu, J. Y. (2015). A pedagogical tale from the piano studio: Autoethnography
in early childhood music education research. Music Education Research, 17(4), 397-420.
Young, S. (2016). Early childhood music education research: An overview. Research Studies in
Music Education, 38(1), 9-21.