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The Importance of Song and Music in Learning

Posted: 8th February 2018

Here at Gymboree Play & Music Cheam, singing and music are a huge part of our classes! So what benefit does this have for your little one?

Singing and exposure to music can help your little one develop their memory and form important neurological pathways. Our songs at Gymboree Play and Music, reinforced with play, can help little ones memorise words, colours and other ideas! As teachers, we love seeing little ones grow and go in to our upper levels, learning the songs we sing and join in! Our colour song ‘red and yellow, green and blue’ is a firm favourite and it’s brilliant to see how it helps little ones memorise their colours.
When your little one does join in, singing provides a brilliant source of expression of emotions and aids linguistic and phonological development too! Learning to expect rhymes at the end of sentences and reinforcing syllables is only going to help little ones before the school curriculum literacy begins!
Music has been shown to ‘light up the brain’, engaging all areas of the brain and stimulating pathways. Studies have shown that mathematic, spacial awareness and linguistic skills are all improved by the learning of an instrument or singing.
Music and singing from an early age helps little ones develop a natural sense of rhythm and melodic familiarity, helping with recognition and the reproduction of tones.
Singing and making music with instruments promotes social development with our friends! And when you shake an instrument or are using it to make a sound, you’re often working on your fine and gross motor skills!
Music and singing can help little ones with special needs and/or learning difficulties. As it’s own universal language, music can be used to communicate where other forms of communication may not be possible. It brings everyone together and promotes inclusivity.

So as you can see, there are so many benefits to singing and music. At Gymboree Play & Music through our classes we help to bring this experience to your little one and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

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Reviews

Both of my children (3.5 years and 11 months) go to Gymboree Play & Music and love it. My toddler goes to their drop-off Lego class which she raves about. It's very creative, working not only on Lego skills but also painting, drawing etc. My infant son loves his Gymboree Play & Music Crawlers class - particularly loves crawling all over their props, through the tunnels, etc. Great way to get the infant crawling over obstacles! Gymboree Play & Music is part of our weekly schedule for both kids and we look forward to participating every week. Invaluable!

Natalia, Hampstead

Gymboree Play & Music was a lovely and positive experience for my son Leo. We started when he was 9 months and he is now 3 years old, I wish we had started sooner.
He loves the songs (which is part of our daily singing at home), the freedom to explore and he was happy there. He looks forward to class every week and once class is over he will tell everyone about Gymbo and what he did.
For me, I liked that it taught him how to get down safely from a height, how to learn to use his body, and touching on different topics every 2 weeks. It gave me confidence in other environments to trust that he has the ability that he learned from Gymboree Play & Music and to trust him.

Sheena, Sevenoaks

I’ve been taking both my newborn and toddler to Gymboree Play & Music for a couple of months now and both boys are really loving the classes and open gym sessions. It’s a great way to meet other mums, entertain toddlers at witching hour(!) and get ideas for sensory play with babies. Sophie and Cat are fantastic and have so much energy and loads of different ideas for the classes, plus make sure the activities it’s help children meet their development milestones as well. Highly recommend this if you’re thinking about joining!! Thanks so much Sophie, Cat and the wider team :-)

Pippa, Tunbridge Wells