Village: Hickory Dickory Tickle & Bounce Week 4

FOUNDATIONS OF LEARNING
SELF-AWARENESS & SOCIAL INTERACTION: The Heigh-Ho, Hello song acknowledges your baby’s developing self-awareness by addressing her individually. It also encourages social interaction by inviting her to respond with a greeting – whether that be to look, coo or wave for the first time. You may find that your baby learns new behaviours from singing this song each week.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: The more you expose your baby to language through speech and song, the stronger his language skills will be. Language acquisition is a gradual process that involves many facets of development including: listening, facial interaction, symbolic play, means to end behaviour, object permanence, imitation and vocal chord development. Vocal play, as in Morning Song, can aid in your baby’s language acquisition.

BOUNCING: Bouncing provides vestibular stimulation to keep your baby attentive and alert. It also helps to increase muscle tone, as the child has to adjust her posture to stay upright while being bounced to keep from falling over.

BABY BELL CHALLENGES & BENEFITS: As your baby handles and moves the bells, she experiences cognitive and physical challenges and reaps benefits as she overcomes these challenges. She has the opportunity either to use her fine motor skills to grasp the bells between thumb and index finger or to use a fisted grasp pattern. She can practice using whole arm movements and simple wrist movements. Depending on her age she may practice transferring the bells from one hand to the other or reaching for the bells at a distance.

VARIETY OF MOVEMENTS: The Sonata for Flute dance helps to develop the vestibular system. The variety of movements linear and rotary helps your baby develop a sense of gravity, balance and where his body is in space. The linear movements are soothing and the rotary movements are stimulating. A well-developed vestibular system provides emotional security, good muscle tone and develops auditory language processing and visual-spatial processing.