Kindermusik OurTime Feedle-dee-dee Week 10

Dear Our Time Parent:

For the past two weeks, the children have taken turns playing the resonator bars while the class sang Sweetly Sings the Donkey. The repetition of this activity has allowed your child to become more and more familiar with the song, thus encouraging him to sing along. This activity also provides the opportunity for each child to learn how to take turns in a supportive environment! And the children have also been further developing their sense of steady beat, the most fundamental property of music. Feeling, moving to, and playing a steady beat help children develop a sense of time and the ability to organize and coordinate movements within time.

You can further experience steady beat activities by playing your Fiddlesticks (or another beat-keeping instrument or homemade instrument) while listening to songs such as ‘Liza Jane, The Tailor and the Mouse or Polly Wolly Doodle. More music at home increases your child’s opportunity to develop a love for music. Have fun!

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

Steady Beat: The most fundamental property of music is beat, the underlying, unchanging, repeating pulse. Feeling and moving to a steady beat helps children develop a sense of time and the ability to organize and coordinate movements within time.