Parents of Toddlers (2’s & 3’s)
Musical Parenting
Tip:  Help your child experience long
& short sounds.
Why?
  • Your child’s awareness of a new concept is heightened, by
    experiencing opposites (like long vs short). 
  • Through labeling this experience, your child is building his
    musical language vocabulary. 
  • Learning about ‘long’ and ‘short’ now, prepares your child
    for preschool music terms like ‘legato’ and ‘staccato.’ 
  • Experiencing different long/short patterns, strengthens her
    rhythmic awareness (preparing her for later study of notation in Kindermusik
    for the Young Child)

How?
  • Help your child notice long & short sounds in music, and
    in your environment (what a long sound the firetruck siren makes!  Listen to the short sound of his horn!)
  • Play the Bark
    & Meow game    ,
    then imitate other long & short sounds with your voice (oinking pigs vs. a
    mooing cow;  tweeting birds vs. a ‘whoo’
    from an owl, etc).
  • Play long & short sounds, with an instrument shaker, perhaps
    the elephant shaker.  Add a favorite song
    from your Kindermusik Home CD!

Want to learn more?
On our
blog:  Read What Do You
Hear?