Musik & Me – Featuring Lets Play Music and Sound Beginnings

Creating musical children…one note at a time!

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Lesson # 6
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Opportunities for meaningful interaction and purposeful connection with your child are included in all Sound Beginnings classes. Playing, singing, and dancing with your children promote a bond with music and strengthen their relationship with you!
Next week’s songs:
  • Days of the Week
  • Cherry Pie
  • DO Pentatonic Scale
  • Frere Jacques
  • Risseldy, Rosseldy
  • This Little River
  • Baby Elephant Walk
  • The Button Factory
  • Un Elephant

Echo Songs
Imitating short patterns and song fragments in echo songs like Frere Jacques helps children learn to sing sing accurately. Echo Songs

Rhythm Instruments
Rhythm instruments help children increase gross and fine motor skills, reinforce hand eye coordination, and help develop a sense of beat and rhythm. Instrument Benefits, Rhythmic Play
learn and grow
No matter their age, Sound Beginnings encourages caregivers to move and experience music together in class. Recent studies suggest that moving to music with a child triggers the release of oxytocin — the “bonding” hormone. Babies whose experience with music also involves movement smile more, are easier to soothe, and are more willing to explore their environment.
Optional Home Fun Activity:
Color the ‘Baby Elephant Walk’ on page 16 in your workbook

Here is a video clip of the Baby Elephant walk song in the movie it was written for!

Next week we’ll begin “Un Elephant” so if you’d like to have some pronunciation guidance, here’s a Facebook video with someone who knows how to do it correctly!
Timbre
As early as seven months, infants can discriminate between sounds of different timbres with the same pitch! Early exposure to various instruments builds neural connections that become the foundation for future study and knowledge.
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:
Gross Motor Skills Peek into a Sound Beginnings class and you will see skipping, crawling, dancing, and jumping! Full body movement builds large muscle strength, hand-eye coordination, aids brain-hemisphere function, and develops balance in young children.

Have a musical day!
-Ms. Bethany 🙂

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