Village: Hickory Dickory Tickle & Bounce Week 3

FOUNDATIONS OF LEARNING

TOUCH: Touch is your baby’s first language. Through the nurturing touch of infant massage, you communicate deep love and respect to your child in a language he or she understands well.

REPETITION: Your baby can enjoy and activity for many repetitions. With this “practice” new connections are made in your baby’s brain, actually helping it grow, and your baby experiences the satisfaction of intentionally causing an effect in his world. In one study on this subject, an 11 month old joyfully rolled a ball to a willing adult playmate 180 times before losing interest! Sound familiar?

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT & MOVEMENT: Brain development is directly linked to movement. Holding your baby in different positions develops different neural connections in the brain.

MAJOR SCALE: This song, which illustrates the lesson focus of up and down, also presents a fundamental musical pattern for your baby to hear, a major scale. Babies’ brains are primed to scan their world for patterns such as this. Since the Bell Ringing Tune is sung on repeated nonsense syllables or one-syllable words rather than lyrics, the pattern in made all the more simple for your baby to detect.