Music and language are linked together by perception, reception, and production of sound patterns. One way of teaching this is called cooperative reading. Cooperative reading is a way of reading to the children to get them involved in the story. The children sing a certain tune throughout the story at key points, and this helps the children learn pitch and rhythm. They also learn other musical concepts such as loud and soft, fast and slow, and high and low.
Integrated curriculum uses language, drama, movement, art and music to stimulate the imagination.
Having the children imitate sounds to different color, while incorporating games and songs is another way of using integrated curriculum. Since musical homes are suppose to produce musical children, the home and school should work together to provide a musical environment. It is not the availability of the music that makes the difference but the interaction the children get with the music. Overtime the teachers learned that the more new stories they told, the more stories the children wrote, and the more creative they became. They also found that the more freedom the children were given, the more creative the story turned out to be.