Preschool CD Reviews

🎓 Skills Your Child Will Develop

• 👂 Phonological Awareness — Songs with rhyme, rhythm, and repetition are the most enjoyable and effective way to develop phonological awareness — the ability to hear and manipulate sounds in language that is the top predictor of reading success.
• 🎵 Musical Intelligence — Active engagement with music — singing, moving, playing — develops the musical intelligence that shapes auditory processing, emotional expression, and the broad cognitive benefits that music education consistently produces.
• 🧠 Memory & Sequencing — Memorizing songs and recalling their sequence builds working memory, sequential memory, and the procedural long-term memory that learning skills — from reading to mathematics — depends on.
• 🤝 Social Connection — Singing together in a group creates social synchrony — a physical experience of togetherness — that builds community, belonging, and the cooperative social bonds that children need for school and friendship.

On this Preschool CD Review page, you will find out all you need to make an informed decision on what Preschool CD’s you should buy. This is a great resource for friends and family that may be looking to buy a gift for a preschooler or just expanding their own children’s music collection. The types of music for children out there ranges from classical to rock and roll, and on this Preschool CD Reviews page, you will find it all! I will review the CD’s that will get your preschoolers up on their feet and dancing all the way to music that will help you little ones fall asleep and drift away to dreamland at night. From educational CD’s to CD’s just for fun-you will find all the information you need for your preschoolers CD collection here.

Featured Preschool CD Reviews:

The Big Bang by Rockosaurus Rex
This preschool CD is definitely for our preschool rockers out there! The Big Bang is filled with all your favorite classic preschool songs but set to hard rockin' beats. Songs such as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and even Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes are flipped around and made funkey on this CD. The Big Bang is sure to get everyone up and dancing at parties, home or even during circle time at school!

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Activity Preparedness - Create an On-the-Go Activiy Kit
Do you often find when you're out and about that you suddenly need something for your preschooler to do? Be prepared to entertain your preschooler in any situation by keeping an On-the-Go Activity Kit in your car.

Healthy Snacks List for Preschool
Snacks at preschool should be healthy and add variety to your preschooler's diet. This list of fruits, vegetables, grains and protein foods will give you ideas for making snack time during school healthy.

Preschool Circle Time Activity
Shape Marching Preschoolers will love this active play activity and they will learn to recognize their shapes at the same time. This makes a wonderful circle time activity and can be used to emphasize any shape that preschoolers are learning.

Helpful Tips for Parents

• Singing with children — not to them, but with them — is the most powerful musical education available. Participation is the point, not performance.
• Play a wide variety of music genres — classical, jazz, folk, pop, world music. A broad musical diet develops more sophisticated auditory discrimination than any single genre.
• Children who regularly hear complex music (multi-part harmonies, syncopated rhythms, varied instrumentation) develop more sophisticated musical brains than those exposed only to simple songs.
• Create family singing rituals: a wake-up song, a travel song, a cleanup song, a bedtime song. Rituals anchor music to positive emotional memories and make it non-negotiable.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the relationship between music and language development?

Music and language share the same neural architecture — both use the left hemisphere's language regions for sequential, rule-governed processing and the right hemisphere for prosodic (melodic) information. Musical training produces measurable improvements in phonological awareness (hearing sound differences in words), speech-in-noise perception (understanding speech in noisy environments), reading fluency, and verbal memory. These are the same skills that predict reading success. A child who sings, rhymes, and plays rhythm instruments daily is doing literacy work at the neurological level.

How many songs should a preschooler know by age 5?

There's no developmental benchmark for number of songs known at age 5. What matters is that children have a rich musical memory — a repertoire of songs they can sing, chant, and reference. A child who knows 20–30 songs in multiple genres, can keep a basic beat, responds emotionally to music, and participates enthusiastically in musical activities is musically well-developed at age 5. The number of songs is less important than the depth of musical engagement they represent.

Related reading: See also our music benefits guide and our nursery rhymes guide for more ideas on this topic.