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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We don't have art for middle school students (I wish we did!), but we do offer band to those students. Band is a yearlong elective.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">An alternate plan and some research offered by a counselor:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">Performing Music Teaches Valuable Lessons to Students<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">While listening to enjoyable music may improve cognition and math skills, performing music offers more advantages. Learning music improves math skills because, at some level,
all music is math. It’s about time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">signatures, beats per minute and formulaic progressions. Performing music, therefore, reinforces parts of the brain used when doing math. Studies even show that children who play
instruments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060"><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/Entertainment/interesting+connection+between+math+music/1473881/story.html#__federated=1">http://www.vancouversun.com/Entertainment/interesting+connection+between+math+music/1473881/story.html#__federated=1</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">are able to complete complex mathematical problems better than peers who do not play instruments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">Students who commit themselves to learning an instrument may also learn other skills that help them perform better in school. It takes a considerable amount of patience to practice
scales, and children who apply<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">similar patience to doing schoolwork will have an advantage over those who don’t. Fine motor skills are also improved by playing musical instruments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">Taking time to appreciate music is a reward on its own. For the teachers and parents trying to help children succeed, that time could also improve math and academic skills.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">From
<a href="https://www.brainbalancecenters.com/blog/2015/04/correlation-between-math-and-music-ability/">
https://www.brainbalancecenters.com/blog/2015/04/correlation-between-math-and-music-ability/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">QUESTION:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 1:51 PM, OSRHE EPAS PK-12 Counselor Discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">Board <counselors@lists.onenet.net> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">> Hope everyone is having a good week. I have a question concerning music and art. We require students in the 7th and 8th grade to rotate through 9 weeks of music and 9 weeks
of art during their 7th grade and then again their 8th grade year. I was wondering what other schools did with their 7th and 8th music and art as we are looking at more instruction time and going to a six subject day with longer classes rather than the 7
sections.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">> *Danielle Tucker, M. ED.*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">> *Guidance Counselor*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">> *Navajo Schools*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">> *dtucker@navajo.k12.ok.us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060">> *580-482-7742*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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