Music,Dance,Art & Craft

Music

Children learn much by hearing music of different kinds. They learn to discriminate between different sounds, pitches, and rhythms. They learn to identify rhymes, which are so common in the lyrics of songs. Rhyming is critical to the development of phonemic and phonological awareness. Children learn rhythm, which is important in skills such as counting, patterning, and many gross motor activities. Music speaks to our emotions. It can positively affect our mood. Music can be uplifting and make us feel good. It can also be calming, soothing, and comforting. It can energize us or relax us. The opportunity to hear and play different instruments builds good auditory discrimination and listening skills. It is also a strong motivator and means of self-expression.

Dance

Dance makes a unique contribution to the education of all its students through its use of non-verbal communication. Students have the opportunity to think about how to use movement to explore and communicate ideas and issues as well as their own feelings and thoughts. As they work, they develop an awareness of the historical and cultural origins of different dances and as well as their social awareness

Dancing and marching help children develop in many ways. They improve a child's sense of rhythm and beat. They are fun and social experiences. They build math concepts (e.g., counting with one-to-one correspondence of the movement matched simultaneously to the count, patterns such as step-step-kick, step-step-kick). They develop a child's coordination, motor control, and balance. They develop laterality - the awareness within the body of the difference between right and left. These activities also develop a child's spatial perception and directionality, which are necessary in reading and writing (e.g., recognizing and producing letters that look similar but are rotated in space, such as b/d/p/q; m/n; reading and writing with left-to-right progression).

Art and Craft

Art education is an integral part of child’s learning and living. The school nurtures artistic capabilities and creates cultural and aesthetic awareness amongst the students of the vast and varied cultural inheritance we have in our country. A variety of folk and classical forms of puppetry, sculpture, visual arts, and crafts from every region of India comes live to the student in these activity rooms. Learning of these arts enriches the lives of our young citizens in their school years as well as for their entire lives. The arts, visual and performing, are an important component of learning in our school curriculum. Children develop skills and abilities in these areas. Art education allows children to develop both a playful as well as a disciplined exploration of themselves and diverse materials, and allows them to experiment with many forms of expression. Working with hands, with materials and with techniques helps in understanding processes, becoming resourceful, taking initiative, and ultimately in problem solving.