Rhyme Time

Rhyme Time

There are many good reasons for using music and rhymes with young children. The first and most important is that most children and adults enjoy it enormously. If we need more justification than that then it provides excellent speech practice and voice control. Although many rhymes and songs are simple in content, they increase vocabulary, and the repeated patterns and sequences of words and rhythm are good memory exercises. The ritual of turn taking and conforming to the ‘rules’ and the communication there can be in sharing an experience that crosses both age and cultural gaps, are useful factors in social development.