A influência da música no desenvolvimento motor e verbal de crianças de 4 a 5 anos

Abstract

The aimed of the study was to evaluate the importance of music teaching, there is verbal and motor development of children in early childhood education. A sample consisted of 26 children aged 4 to 5 years in Step V, divided into two groups, control and intervention. There is no intervention group such as high school children with random children's songs that included singing, thunderstorms and dance exercises. The control had no contact musicals. As classes were 1h per session / 3 sessions per week for 8 weeks. The instrument used to evaluate children's motor development for the Rosa Neto Motor Development Scale test protocol. They were evaluated as variables: fine motor, global motor, balance, body schema, spatial organization, temporal organization and laterality. For the verbal test, the Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test was used. The intervention of the music improved the motor indices of the general motor age, global motricity, balance, corporal scheme, spatial organization and temporal organization. Verbal development did not improve with the teaching musical. In the comparison of genders there was no significant difference between boys and girls in both motor and verbal development. It concludes that music plays an important role in the motor development of school children, being an important educational tool for an implementation without pre-school education.