In addition to the other centers that we use to encourage learning through play, we encourage our students to express themselves through music. Music has been consistently shown to provide skill-building on a level that other subjects do not–but our preschoolers simply love the opportunity to play loudly with instruments, voices, and dancing.
Students at Genesis Preschools, through their musical expression:
- Increase fine motor skills as they manipulate instruments
- Work on gross motor skills like balance, rhythm, and coordination (air guitar is HARD!)
- Apply their senses to differentiate between sounds
- Increase their vocabulary, phonological awareness, and attention span
- Use math skills like counting, patterning, and tempo
- Develop all their cognitive areas, as musical expression fires neurons
- Encourage communication in multiple forms
- Sing songs about what they’re learning, which forms the backbone of learning at Genesis Preschools