Music Education for Children

• Benefits of Music Education in Preschool Children - Analyses the importance of music helping children develop motor skills, build their self-confidence and boost oral and memory skills.
• Ideabox - Music and Songs - find lyrics to more than 30 songs kids love.
• Music and Movement - site with over 200 hundred musical activities for children.
• Music Education: Early Childhood - find resources online and printable pages.
• Music Improves Reasoning in Pre-school Children - features an article claiming how music training can make a big difference spatial-temporal reasoning in young children.
• NNCC Finger Plays and Action Verses for Children - site featuring finger plays, action rhymes, and action songs.
• NNCC Music and Movement Activities -young children can have fun with music and rhymes.
• Position Statement on Early Childhood Education -site discussing benefits of teaching music in early childhood education and icludes instruction and curriculum recommendations, created by the National Assoc. for Music Education.