Integrating music into everyday activities can enable children to understand and remember material with greater ease. Active, engaging and exciting musical learning techniques heighten emotional states, which can make specific activities and content more memorable. Familiar songs, raps or rhymes which integrate teaching material improve memorization of facts, and make repetition of learning more fun.
The atmosphere of a learning environment can be greatly adapted by different types of music. Classical music, such as Bach or Telemann has a calming influence on children, leading to a more relaxed classroom, which enables greater levels of concentration. Learning facts or vocabulary while listening to classical music is highly effective. More active music with a quicker rhythm and more upbeat pace can energize learning activities, encouraging children to become more involved with a specific task.
Music in preschool enables children to become more self-expressive. The powerful nature of music excites a variety of emotions which can be utilized by children in a productive manner. Encouraging this expression of emotions through writing or artwork can aid development of a child's creative nature.
Music can also be used within the classroom as a way of separating specific tasks. Having a musical interlude can allow children time to refocus, and prepare for the next task. It can also be used as a reward upon the completion of a task.