Why use music in the classroom?

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Music has intrinsic value in the classroom because most children enjoy it calming music, dance to rhythmic music, and sing lyrics with gusto. Childre can't write in other contexts copy down the words of favorite songs or e own parody lyrics for their own amusement. Teachers who have no perfor it doesn't take much!) can use tapes from the excellent collections widely music in your Spanish bilingual classroom to: Spanish verbs
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