Music is very important, and it is very essential as a foundation phase teacher to include it when teaching your learners. Children from a young age love sounds so teaching and learning process become a success when music is integrated in learning because it makes it much easier for them to remember the content that is being taught through music. Music activities helps children enhance most of their skills. Skills like motor coordination, thinking abilities, language and understanding emotions. There are so many ways that you can use as a foundation phase teacher to incorporate music in your class. You must make sure that you use music to establish positive learning, that way you will be creating the right atmosphere for your learners to learn while having fun. You will also be inspiring them to release their body energy because they will doing body percussion activities and keeping their focus on music.

Holistic development is very important especially when music is involved because it is the  main key to successful learning especially in the early years of childhood. It develops motor skills of learners, social skills, emotional understanding , intellectual capacity and spiritual beliefs. When teaching music you must make sure that that you include all basic music concepts because the are the one that determines how learners responds to music. Duration, pitch, intensity, quality and texture are the basic music concepts that helps learners relate to music and be bale to understand music.