Early Childhood Music
Why This Topic Matters
A music session with young children can look like play, and it is. It is also a setting where children practise listening, joining in, and using their voices and bodies with other people.
What Children Do in a Music Session
Children take part in different ways, and all of them count. Some sing along from the first day. Others watch for several weeks, then start joining in with a movement, a sound, or a single word of a song.
Across a typical session, children have opportunities to listen closely, move to a steady beat, try out their singing voices, play simple instruments, and follow what is happening around them. Over time, those opportunities add up to a growing familiarity with music itself.
Why Familiar Songs Come Back
Songs and activities repeat from week to week on purpose. Repetition gives a child time to move from watching to trying, and from trying to leading. A song a child barely noticed in September can become the one they ask for by name in January.
Music Outside the Music Session
Music travels easily. A song from class turns up during clean-up, on the walk home, or at bedtime, and it can become something a family does together rather than something that only happens at school.
That is why participating children’s immediate families receive the Music Together family songbook and access to the current song collection through the Music Together app, and why classroom teachers receive resources for continuing music-making between visits.
For Schools
Bringing Music Into the Early Childhood Classroom
Bracy’s Music Together brings developmentally appropriate music and movement experiences into UPK/Pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms during the school day.
Participating classrooms receive 30 weekly sessions during the academic year, with classroom teachers participating alongside their students and resources that help music-making continue beyond the specialist’s visit.
Updated September 2026. This resource was rewritten as original Bracy’s Music Together content. The previous version is kept in this site’s revision history.