Posted by: Silly Bus | May 5, 2011

These days, families are busier than ever balancing work, school, activities, and simple household chores.  This makes it difficult to find time for additional learning activities outside of school.  Additionally, this time constraint makes it challenging to effectively prepare preschool age children with the fundamentals needed for kindergarten.

Here are some tips to help you select the best music for your kids for learning:

1. Sounds & Stories: Music that focuses on story telling and phonetics to help children learn the basic concepts and sounds is very important. Let’s face it, we are all out and about more with school activities like sports, and we spend less time at home. Learning at home used to be the primary choice to help give children a boost when it came to preparing for and engaging in elementary school.  Now, kids can learn all the time. Playing music that adults and kids can sing together is a great way to get started.

To help parents and guardians solve this challenging issue, parents should consider leveraging educational music and videos for use in the car, at home or during times when there is down time for their children. Here are additional things to keep in mind when choosing music and videos:

2.  Pictures worth a 1,000 words: Images in videos that help children correlate the concepts that they have heard about with pictures, allowing children to learn from both audiation and visualization;

3. Songs with themes: Media that has repetitive themes which will help children remember content and concepts; and

4. Stay positive: Upbeat songs help to maintain the positive mood and feeling of achievement.

These types of key components can be very powerful for children.  Leveraging this type of content can help preschool and early elementary children turn play time into class time and class time into play time.

Parents can quickly implement this type of media into their daily routines by simply playing music and videos while on the way to the store, commuting to and from school, and before and after afternoon activities.  By taking a few simple steps now, parents can help give their children a real leg up as they prepare for and begin their educational adventure.

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