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| Lesson # 7 |
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 Dance Purpose
Dancing not only improves physical abilities like balance and coordination, it fosters social interaction and creative expression. Benefits of Dance, Creativity Echo Edie & Head Voice
By echoing Edie with high voices, your children are discovering their head voice (or upper vocal range), which is so important for learning to sing in tune! Head vs. Chest Voice, Vocal Range for Kids |
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| A baby’s hearing is well developed at birth and by six months an infant can hear and process a wide range of sounds. The infant brain is also highly sensitized and wired for learning. So, even the very young benefit from interactive musical play. These benefits might include: - better developed early communication skills
- earlier and more sophisticated brain responses to music.
- earlier ability to imitate and match pitch
- accelerated language acquisition
To name a few! Optional Home Fun Activity:
Do the days of the week activity on p. 23 (cutouts on p. 31). | | |
| Here is a video that shows it’s not only people that can benefit from music, but our favorite semester animal, the elephant, can enjoy music as well! |
 Physical Touch
Nurturing physical contact with infants develops a secure attachment that facilitates enhanced social, emotional, and physical development. |
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| 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: | | |
 | Research has shown that singing improves reading. Our classes prepare children for kindergarten by exploring concepts and skills such as name recognition, alphabet and phonetic awareness, counting, identifying colors, rhyming, telling time, and sequencing. | |
Have a musical day!
-Ms. Bethany 🙂  |