How does music and dance help with physical activity and movement?
Music and dance helps children with skills like co-ordination and sense of timing, which are really useful for kicking balls, throwing and catching things. These are all skills you need to be active and play sport later in life. Dance and moving in time with music enables kids to cross the midline. This is using the eye, hand, or foot on one side of the body in the space of the eye, hand or foot on the other side of the body. For example, touching your left elbow with your right hand, touching you left foot with your left hand or touching your left foot with your right hand. It’s an essential activity for the two hemispheres of the brain to be able to communicate with each other and pass information back and forth. So it’s really important for reading, writing and learning as well as movement skills. What activities which include music and dance can you do with kids at home? Almost anything! Even chores are more fun with music, dancing and singing! For younger children songs, rhymes an
