Music, movement helping pre-K students to learn | Education - Hays Free Press

Movement and music make for a fun day for 118 pre-K students at Scudder Primary School at Wimberley ISD, and it is a proven way to teach this 3- to 4-year-old age group by haysfreepress. 

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While these fast-moving and always-thinking students run, jump and slide all around the gym floor, it’s not only in P.E. that they are constantly moving.

“This is not just sit and get. Everything we are teaching students involves music and movement to keep them engaged, having fun and of course learning, sometimes without realizing how much they have picked up in the process,” said Jessica Buck, Scudder Primary pre-K 3 teacher...

Because of the structure, certified teachers and curriculum-based learning in Scudder pre-K, the students are now learning at a younger age, skills that were more commonly part of kindergarten education. The Scudder program is based on The Children’s Learning Institute (CLI) Scholastic Big Day for Pre-K at McGovern Medical School at UT Health, the preeminent resource for learning solutions that produce tested, proven, effective results through scientific research and evidence-based interviews.

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Source: Hays Free Press