Mutual Learning of Pre-school Children through Music Games

Abstract

This article examines the problem of pre-school children mutually learning through music games. Mutual learning of children through music games is an integral part of the education process, which takes place naturally and covers a variety of fields of children education and is often related with gaming activities. By playing music games children have a habit of observing, hearing each other, talking, inviting to play, exchanging information, combining ideas and actions. Mutual learning through music games is important for the pupils behavioral, emotional and their abilities formation, ensuring the maintenance of positive relations with peers and comprehensive development of the child.

The empirical research revealed that while playing music games children learn from each other the rules of the game, proper movements and words of the song, learn to repeat required sounds and to dance. Children usually learn from each other by applying various ways: most commonly they demonstrate how to perform a task, carry it together, explain how to perform proper movements, they notice mistakes made by others, offer other children to join the activity, share their knowledge, pay a compliment, model, observe, question in order to understand, ask for the help. Children not only learn from each another but also develop their social, communicative, artistic, cognitive and health abilities.