Musik & Me – Featuring Lets Play Music and Sound Beginnings

Creating musical children…one note at a time!

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Lesson # 3
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This semester has a few French songs to help expose the students to the sounds of the French language. We are not attempting to teach a broad vocabulary, fluency, or even proper pronounciation, but simply exposure. Please check out the link below (in the section entitled "Exposure to Languages") to see how this benefits your student far more than you may realize!
Next week’s songs:
  • Days of the Week
  • The Shape Song
  • Thread Follows Needle
  • In My Class I Have Some Bells
  • Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
  • Miss Mary Mack
  • The Button Factory
  • If You Want to Speak in French
  • The Blue Danube
  • This Little River

Here is a Facebook video another teacher’s husband made for the song “If You Want to Speak in French” that goes over the pronunciation, if you want to be more precise than what we do in class. (I think you need to be logged in to Facebook to see it.)

Thank you for your enthusiastic participation in class! When you enjoy class activities you issuing a safe, non-threatening invitation for your child to also participate.

Even if your child is reserved and hesitant to fully engage in class, they are learning. Continue to encourage participation (but never force/bribe) and listen to the music often at home. Your example demonstrates how much fun making music can be!

Shapes: Recognizing the attributes of shapes is the same basic cognitive process children use in observing, comparing and discussing everything they encounter. Why Shapes, Shapes & Color Recognition

Exposure to Languages: Exposure to multiple languages varies their social experience and
helps children develop more effective social communication skills. Multilingual Exposure, Smarter Babies
learn and grow

Understanding shape is foundational to cognitive development because shape is a primary source that infants and toddlers use to identify the objects around them. Eventually children will utilize this same cognitive process to observe, compare and discuss all they see and encounter.

Optional Home Fun Activity:
Color and cut out the shapes on page 29 of your workbook.
Here is our Singable Storybook "Miss Mary Mack" for you to sing along with!
Music as a Social Bond: Synchronous movements such as clapping, bouncing, or dancing in time to music with infants have proven to help form social bonds between caregiver and child. (Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behavior at McMaster University)
7 foundational elements
Sound Beginnings is education through musical play! It prepares children for success in Kindergarten and Let’s Play Music. Sound Beginnings provides research-based elements that stimulate growth in the areas particularly crucial to the development of the young child. These elements make up the foundation of the Sound Beginnings curriculum. Here is just one:
rhythm & beat In class we experience steady beat and imitate rhythmic patterns with our voices, bodies, and through hands-on use of instruments. We incorporate Eurythmics, which is movement-based rhythm training that is perfect for toddlers!  

Have a musical day!
-Ms. Bethany 🙂

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