Becca Geddes

Music is such a wonderful teaching tool and brings so much joy to families. There are so many benefits when it comes to singing with your child or baby, we have picked five of our favourites to share with you.

• Singing teaches communication skills

When singing, your child will use their listening, speaking and action skills and this can hugely support their communication development.

Singing helps children to develop fluency of oral communication skills. It offers an opportunity to be vocal in a controlled way and helps children to listen attentively and to produce a variety of sounds.

• Singing helps with brain development

When your child learns to sing along to their favourite songs, it’s a great way to develop their memory. They will remember lyrics to songs as well as the tunes. Have a think about how many songs you know off by heart! This works with our children too. Singing can also help build concentration, especially when singing as part of a group, a class, or even just with your family.

• Singing increases your child-parent bond

When you sing with a child you will incorporate touch, holding, cuddles, rocking and patting with your songs. You will also use eye contact, smiling and nodding.  These activities help to promote a child’s development by strengthening the bond between parent and child. Singing to your child makes them happy. When you sing, they bond with your voice and with you! Think of all the smiles you get when you are singing together with your child. It’s just wonderful!

• Singing helps keep you healthy

Singing releases endorphins that make you feel happy which is fantastic for your mental health and overall mood, but did you know singing can help build your immune system? It is also an aerobic activity! Think of how you breath when you are singing, it forces us to breath deeply which increases the amount of oxygen that’s taken into our bodies. Incredible right?!

• Music can improve numeracy skills

Songs such as ‘Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer’ and ‘Ten Green Bottles’ are a great way to help your child count. Singing songs with numbers in them, teaches your child how to count, add and subtract. These rhymes are great for singing together, from counting forwards to 10, and also backwards, these rhymes will help young children become familiar with numbers in a fun and memorable way.

Kidshealth.org, is quoted in saying:

“Children who grow up hearing music, singing songs, and moving to the beat are enjoying what experts call “a rich sensory environment.” That’s just a fancy way of saying a child is exposed to a wide variety of tastes, smells, textures, colours, and sounds. And kids who enjoy such a rich environment do more than have fun. Researchers believe they forge more pathways between the cells in their brains.”

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With things looking a lot brighter as the pandemic restrictions are eased, this month our theme is ‘Around the World!’ In our online kids music classes, we have been learning and singing songs about different ways to travel around the world.

Pre-schoolers and toddlers can really benefit from learning about our big wide wonderful world at an early age, whether it be exploring different ways to travel or discovering new countries. You can even start introducing simple languages from a different country to your children, for example ‘Bonjour!’ or ‘Hola!’

Musically, why not find some YouTube videos of musical instruments from a variety of different cultures such as:

• Chinese Rattle Drums
• Singing Bowl
• Maracas
• Didgeridoo
• Chilean Rain Sticks
• Coffee Can Drums
• Chinese Gong

Listen to the different sounds they make and the way they make you feel. Get dancing and moving to the newly discovered sounds and music that you find!

Children will enjoy copying and learning new songs, dances and musical skills together at home and in nursery, and will all learn at their own pace, engaging differently according to their age.  This makes it perfect for siblings to enjoy together and they love showing their grown-ups what they can do! We encourage parents and staff to join in the fun with the children and support their new skills – having fun together.

Enjoy seeing your children develop:

• Confidence
• Creativity and imagination
• Musical skills
• Communication and language skills

This is the perfect way to enjoy special time together, developing a love of music to last a lifetime!

Kids of all ages love to express themselves through music, joining in with singing and action songs that relate to their world. With props that can easily be sourced at home or nursery, each of our 25-minute weekly sessions fire the imagination and nurture confidence through movement and creativity – it is certainly no work and ALL PLAY! 

Music encourages and fine tunes motor control through movement, as well as strengthening resilience, confidence and individuality! 

To find out more about on how Music Go Round can assist with education through the power of music and dance please visit: