Music Teacher: Fran Rissland

Our music educator provides one half hour per week of music enrichment for groups 1– 5

Music is a powerful media for enriching a child’s developing language and cognitive skills.

Music curriculum coordinates with classroom activities.

Why are songs and finger plays crucial in early childhood?

1. They provide the opportunity for all children to become involved.
2. All Children need to say words in order to acquire them, so that they may be used later on in reading and creative writing.
3. Children become familiar with new words in a meaningful context so they become part of speech.
4. Even the shy child can enter into the song or rhyme with all the poise and security of the confident child.
5. Songs and finger plays are conducted in a relaxed and happy atmosphere where the learning is in the doing not the end result.
6. They provide emotional releases and contribute to the general social and emotional stability of children.
7. Songs and finger plays create a happy bond with other children as well as their teacher.