Kindermusik OurTime Away We Go Week 11

Care to share a new ritual?

By now you know your toddler thrives on routines and rituals. She’s comforted by predictability. Familiar patterns give her self-confidence and a feeling of control in a world that often feels out of her control.

Routines such as the Our Time “Hello” song, rocking time, circle dancing, and good byes form a solid structure for your toddler. Activities she can look forward to each week.

Throughout your week at home, notice the rituals you have formed as a family and take care to preserve them. Just as in our classroom, they will bring a sense of security to you all.

See you next week, same time, same place.



Kindermusik’s Foundations of Learning - some of the benefits your child received from today’s activities are:

Security in Routines: The ritual of beginning and ending class the same way each week is an important element of class structure. There is security in routines. Events that can be counted on to come at the same time or in a predictable order help a child learn how to order time and help him develop confidence in his ability to predict what comes next.

Smooth and Bumpy: The focus of smooth and bumpy provides another link between music and transportation. In transportation we experience the smoothness or bumpiness of a ride in a vehicle. In music we sense smoothness in sustained, legato, and unaccented musical lines. Bumpiness is sensed in staccato and/or accented musical lines.