Excepts from Icebreaker Games for Children BJ08
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These are “We Learn by Doing” activities (or quick game ideas or games used “on the spur of the moment,” which involve many areas and goals in the child’s “everyday” life. Areas games involve: dental health, addition, subtraction, math facts, time concepts, visual memory, sharing and cooperating in a group, locomotors skills, hand-eye coordination, jump roping, balancing, sharing information, spelling, tactile discrimination, numbers, developing physical fitness, listening for directions, rhythms, thinking, multicultural awareness, reading, promoting quickness, flexibility, blowing, dodging, shapes, creative movement, identifying words, skipping, running, and tagging.
Examples:
1. Music captivates and maintains attention
2. Music stimulates and utilizes many parts of the brain
3. Music is easily adapted to, and can be reflective of, children’s abilities
4. Music structures timein a way that we can understand
5. Music provides a meaningful, enjoyable context for repetition
6. Music provides a social context -- it sets up a safe, structured setting for verbal and nonverbal communication
7. Music is an effective memory aid
8. Music supports and encourages movement
9. Music taps into memories and emotions
10. Music and the silences within it provides nonverbal, immediate feedback
11. Music is success-oriented - children of all ability levels can ...
