I will choose music in the Foundation phase because music, movement and dramatic play enhance the child's growing capacity for creative expression. Music offers children the opportunity to express themselves melodically and rhythmically. Children respond to a variety of songs, finger plays and instruments as they discover different ways to use their voices and bodies.

Music ignites all areas of child development and skills for school readiness, including intellectual, social-emotional, motor, language, and overall literacy. It helps the body and the mind work together. For children and adults, music helps strengthen memory skills.

When children participate in music and movement activities in a group, they also develop and refine their social skills. They learn to work as a team, they learn to share and they learn how to be creative in a group environment. Learning to express emotions. Improving balance and coordination.

Movement activities, also called gross motor activities, are games, actions or activities of any kind that engage the large muscles of the body, thereby building gross motor coordination.

Music, movement, and drama provide an important means for spontaneous creativity that comes from the rich and deep inner life of the child. Through the performing arts, children feel free to create and re-create themselves at will. They try on feelings, expressions, and different ways of being.

Music, and especially the beat that people are able to perceive in it, has an extraordinarily direct link to movement. It is speculated that music may have actually emerged to facilitate movement, synchronization and the resulting connection between people.

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