How Rhymes and Music develops child's cognitive skills.

Cognitive skills are the skills that your brain uses to think, understand, read, learn, grasp, remember, recognize, reason, memorize and pay concentration. "Brain training" activities trains the cognitive skills where the brain uses maximum ability to think and learn.

In Kids Cognitive skills include: Asking questions, problem solving, developing an increased attention span, matching, visual discrimination, comparing, sequencing, simple reasoning, sorting, ordering and organizing.

And also understanding fact and fiction, understanding cause and effect.

How Rhymes and Music develops your child's cognitive skills?

A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words and rhyming is particularly common in many types of poetry, nursery songs, and carols. Music can play an important role in your child's cognitive growth, even before birth exposing your child to music ignites all areas of child development. Like music, rhymes has strong rhythmic patterns the timing of syllables helps listeners define one speech sound from another.

Most children love singing and dancing along music. Music not only brings happiness to children, it also benefits children’s cognitive skills. Music can then be used to motivates children to engage in learning activities. Child can be motivated to participate in activities involving different sounds, rhythms and songs so that their body and mind can work together to learn new things attentively.

Music and rhymes helps children learn language by increasing vocabulary, learning the sounds of words and hearing the rhythm of language. Children can also gain large and small motor skills by performing actions and movements.

Benefits

• Listening skills and following directions.
• Reading readiness is enhanced by Actions.
• Social skills are enhanced.
• Increases attention span.
• Reading readiness is supported by building recognition of letters and -sounds.
• Develop gross and fine motor skills.
• Action songs are fun and engaging.
• Improves imagination skills.
• Make academics easier and effective.
• Enhance linguistic skills.
• Self confidence.                   so on................

Farida Zalal

Principal

Vighnaan e-Techno School

Hospet