Music Makers provides children with the opportunity to explore music and develop key skills:
- Develop language and memory through rhyme and song
- Develop social skills, confidence, self awareness and awareness of others
- Introduces early mathematics - counting, grouping, sorting
- Listening, imitating and responding to instruction Investigating how sounds are made - blowing, beating, shaking, striking and scraping a wide variety of percussion instruments
- Link sound to movement
- Develop a curiosity to explore and respond to sound
- Become familiar with the main elements of music - rhythm, timbre(light and shade), dynamics (loud and soft), pitch (high and low), duration (long and short), tempo (fast and slow)
- Develop coordination and interpretation