Use of music during a role play in the class

On 17th September, I made use of back ground music for a role play performed by class 1 students. The main objective of the role play was to make themselves aware of name of the king and queen of Bhutan. There were dancers who danced in the rhythm of music played. A boy and a girl was selected to act as a king and queen respectively. They were made to perform even during one of the shows as it was very relevant to them. The materials that I used were just my mobile and a wire to connect it to  speakers. The speakers amplified the loudness of sound.

Music ignites all areas of child development: intellectual, social and emotional, motor, language, and overall literacy. It helps the body and the mind work together. Exposing children to music during early development helps them learn the sounds and meanings of words. Dancing to music helps children build motor skills while allowing them to practice self-expression. For children and adults, music helps strengthen memory skills. 

The students came up with positive responses when they were told that they would be acting when the music is played. It is challenging to teach such a long lyrics to a class 1 or PP students verbally, therefore playing music helped me save time and moreover their interest was more into acting with the background music.
In conclusion, i would always suggest people to use ICT where

fig 1. students during a role play

As the song was played, the characters entered into the scene to act their roles and through the song, they learnt the roles and songs too (figure 1). It was very effective because they were able to remember the roles and lyrics easily when they are taught in the form of song. They easily understood the meaning of lyrics in the process of dancing step wise.   

So in conclusion, I would suggest through my experience that to make a role play more exciting, a background music can be used so that they learn faster and know the meanings easily. Children also show more interest when they are made to dance in the rhythm of musics.