Dear Families,
We sure "moved & grooved" in class this week! Thank you all for your creative ideas and enthusiasm in class. Have you noticed all the moving words in our songs? "Hop Up My Baby", "Jing Jang" and "My Pony Joe" to name just a few.
Words are simply sounds until they are associated with an object, action, experience or feeling. Combining sounds, movement, and language, such as fast and slow, high and low, and smooth and bumpy, gives children an opportunity to make connections between the action and sounds. When similar events and sounds are repeated together, words begin to have meaning ("The Meaning of Words." presented by Bruce Perry at the National Early Childhood Advisory Board Meeting on May 19, 2000).
For more Family Time fun at home, enjoy fast and slow “family jams” (play-alongs) to your favorite songs using your Kindermusik Monkey Drums! Find ways of playing your drums fast and slow, high and low and moving to the 1-2 beat and the 1-2-3 beat. Youngesr children will enjoy shaking their den-den drums, while older children might roll the handle between the palms of their hands, allowing the balls to clack rhythmically against the body of the instrument. There are a wealth of possibilities that will reveal themselves as you explore together.
Have a fun time taping, shaking and playing together!
