Building Successful Literacy Skills In The Early Years Through Music

Literacy skills are fundamental to higher level skills like planning, critical thinking, problem solving and socio-emotional development. It all begins with fine motor skills like holding a pencil effectively, listening to stories and being able to retell them while anticipating events and consequences, recognising sounds and word shapes, and finally, forming letters and/or words that …

Meeting Maths Early Learning Goals with Musical Songs and Games 

Maths can be tricky in the early years because working with numbers is such a conceptual topic – there is no object that is a “four”, for example. You cannot pick up a “four”. You cannot smell a “four”. And the younger the child, the more literal they are. However, once children have been introduced …