Kindermusik Family Time Our Kind of Day Week 9

Dear Family Time Parents,

With only one more week in the semester, I am celebrating all that we have learned and enjoyed during this Family Time class. We’ve established a set of classroom rituals and routines that have provided a framework in which your children can flourish. I invite you to share your favorite class memory or perhaps something significant that you’ve observed at home that illustrates how your family has enjoyed and benefited from this class. Rituals and routines like these, in class or at home, contribute to the stability of your child’s emotional development. With that in mind, create a new ritual for your family this week, perhaps a bedtime ritual. Read and sing along to “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes” with the whole family and your kangaroo puppets, too. Then turn down the lights and listen to one of the following tracks on the Home CD to help your children relax before bed: “Brahms Intermezzo,” “Simple Gifts,” or “The More We Get Together.”

As you continue these rituals and create new ones, know that you are contributing to the stability of your child’s emotional development. Thank you for sharing your family with me!_________________________________________

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

Internal Control – Achieving internal control over his actions, or self-discipline, is a gradual and important process for a child. Activities that ask children to focus, listen, and rect to aural cues to move – or stop moving – help them develop this kind of attention and control.

Locomotor Movements – Locomotor movements move the body from one place to another. The growth and refinement of these skills teaches balance, steady beat, and coordination. Locomotor movements fully activate and integrate the brain and enhance the development of cognitive skills.