Build Life Skills With Music
By Mimi Rothschild
There are many positive and life-enhancing reasons to incorporate music into the home school curriculum. Studies have shown that involving children in some sort of music lessons early on results in them developing stronger abilities to learn and comprehend. As a home school instructor and a parent, you also need to understand and actively practice the use of the right side of your child’s brain; the side of the brain that controls creativity. Music can aid you in doing that as well. Music also helps anyone to express his or herself, thus boosting self-esteem.
It seems obvious why the art of music would enhance your home school child’s brain development and learning abilities. Music can be very complex, but even simple music has various factors to it that stimulate different parts of the brain. There are three components that make up music: sound, rhythm, and melody. You can help develop your home school children’s ability to pick things apart and individually examine the components of what makes something work – like music. Help them learn about the things in the world that make sound. Then have your homeschool children explore the concept of rhythm. Rhythm, in music, makes sense and order of sound by adding a beat. It defines the flow of the music. Have your home school children study different rhythm patterns in things around them, or have them make rhythm themselves. They could use wooden spoons to bang on the bottom of buckets, for example.
This is a great way for you to encourage self-expression and boost self-esteem in your home school children; by letting them do as they feel when they’re making sounds and rhythm. Music is a great form of self expression; and can be very unique and personal for everyone. When your home school children are able to express themselves, it makes them feel like they’re special, important, smart, and capable. The higher a child’s self-esteem, the happier he or she is, and the more eager he or she is to learn.
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