Music education accelerates learning in all areas of a child’s development.
- 90% of the brain is used when child actively participates in music.
- We retain 50% more information when a movement component is added.
- Music improves cognitive skills more than twice as much as sports, theater or dance.
- The recipients of music education have IQ is 7,5 points higher than others.
- 88% of all post-graduate college students had extensive music training (2007 poll).
- We are born with pitch and rhythm.
What makes a musical activity “developmentally appropriate?”
- It introduces child to the most important concepts.
- It extends intellectual and physical vocabulary.
- It taps into a child’s imagination and sense of adventure.
- It encourages creative thinking and expressive feelings.
- It encourages social interaction and self-esteem.
- It develops foundation to a lifetime skills.
- It incorporates elements of language with sounds and symbols.
Children learn by moving through their environment
- Musical activities stimulate brain neural connections in a child under 5 faster, than at any other stage of their lives.
- Foreign languages, math concepts and pre-literacy skills “just happen” during interactive music.
- Participating in music allows children to figure things independently, as well as cooperatively with others.
- Learning rhythmic patterns and sequences in dances helps reading skills and memorization.