Kids Music - Text, melody and memory

Observing a student teacher in a class of first-class music recently, I was the phenomenon of students sang a poem and then ask if they add a melody to poetry was beaten. If teachers were asked questions to understand the poem prior to the melody of the responses of students in general. If the same questions after you add a melody for the poem and the song that asked, the students' responses were more specific. Often he sang his answers. Add to melodyIngrain words seemed to help in their minds the meaning of the poem. He may have been helped including the effect of simultaneous left and right sides of the brain that students remember more information from the poem to a melody.

This observation reminds me of my own musical education at the grassroots level and the frequency with which I would like melodies of poems, songs and stories to add, to help students remember important educational issues. Many times, the class teacherI said that because the students were singing songs about the fifty states, mathematical concepts, historical facts, rhyming words, etc., their students are able to memory, and having regard to such information. Students seemed to grasp and retain more when information is learned about the means of pleasant music.

It 'my habit for the former students of music to see me at a restaurant or a supermarket and they tell me that I still remember, many years later, the texts Songs from the education system they had learned in their elementary music classes. Many students were able to remember that we have the classic melodies and lyrics have instant recall of both the lyrics and the melody is 20 years later.

Of course, the combination of music and text has the great merit and improves academic performance of students. Education, the song of tuneful melodies paired with interesting can stimulate the child's memory and help keepSong> is. This is the main objective of the Silly-bus system of education and the songs they write and record for children. For children in preschool and kindergarten songs are a fun way to teach children to basic concepts such as colors, numbers, the alphabet, months of the year, etc.

How can we determine if the child has learned a concept introduced in a song? After the child has heard many times that the song play the song again and invites him or listen to itattention to the keywords and repeating sections of a song. Let the child tell the story to tell described in a song and all the details you remember the song. Teachers and parents can then assess what the child has learned, and to refer the child to the discovery and exploration of the relationship between the new learning experiences and its current knowledge. The movement is also evaluated and enhanced the learning experience to add text to a melody.Kinesthetic learning through movement is a natural way to bring the child to understand the music and information in texts. The movement of the child's parents, and teachers can see and assess the child's understanding and knowledge of a song.