Musical Parenting Tip:  Notice and experience musical patterns with your child (0-24 months)
Why?
  • Recognizing patterns is an important
    building block of learning.  It allows
    your child to better predict what is coming next. 
  • Music is both sound & silence.  Silence allows us to wait, listen, and try to
    anticipate/predict what will come  next.
  • When patterns & related groupings
    of information are bound together as a unit, the volume of material stored,
    increases. Patterns, then , become an important avenue for recall & memory.

How?
  • Play ‘In the City,’ from the On the
    Town with Bear album.  Have fun dancing
    & stopping, during the ‘gooo, and stop!’ parts of the song!  Can you play an instrument, and ‘go &
    stop’ with that, too?
  • Add sign language for ‘stop, look, and listen’ to your
    games. 
  • Put a shaker in a container, and play
    the Little Red Box song. ( If you like, change the words to match your
    container).  Take a long, suspenseful
    pause, before you ‘put it back again.’

Want
to Learn More?
On our blog – read 3 ways kids learn math through
music
Also, find tips for playing with patterns.