"The students are just so excited about singing and moving and dancing that it just...you forget to be self-conscious about it and it's really great to watch their enthusiasm."....
"Every child comes with incredible potential and music just provides all that outlet for all other skill areas."
"ABC Music and Me" stems from Kindermusik... a 30-year-old music and movement program for young children found by many universities to also enhance spatial and temporal reasoning along with math and science skills.
"Another research area that universities have been using with Kindermusik classes is on executive functions skills...self-control, being patient, waiting, taking turns, sharing."
Brooks says the program has already struck a chord with her students.
"A lot of my students that have a very difficult time speaking always do better with music first...so when they learn a song, then they can incorporate that language into their speaking vocabulary as well."
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Very cool!
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