OUR TIME: FIDDLE-DEE-DEE Week 9

FOUNDATIONS OF LEARNING

CRESCENDO: Crescendo is the Italian musical term for a gradual increase in volume. It is one of many expressive elements of music and can serve to add intensity, urgency, and excitement to music, regardless of whether the music is sung, played on instruments, or spoken rhythmically.

HIDING & FINDING: Asking a child to hide an object and then find it helps her to discover object permanence. Awareness of object permanence is the realization that even when something (or someone) is hidden and out of sight, it still exists. This is an important understanding for “bound away and back” toddlers adjusting to the experience of being away from their parents.