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FOUNDATIONS OF LEARNING:

Language Centres: Environments rich in written, spoken, and gestural language provide the experience necessary for the stimulation of neural dendrites and circuits in the brain. This stimulation causes the brain’s language centers to grow, thus allowing the child to understand and speak efficiently.

Balance & Stability: In order to develop balance and stability, toddlers should practice walking in different directions and in different patterns.

Experiencing Sound: The locrian mode, which may be represented by thinking of the white keys from b to b on a keyboard, is rarely used. However, the “fun” of this particular mode is the little-heard interval, the tritone. The earlier a child hears and experiences a particular sound, the easier it is for the child to reproduce that sound. Exposing children to a sound they may not hear in their day-to-day experience allows them a new point of reference for sounds.