VILLAGE: Rhythm Of My Day Week 2

FOUNDATIONS OF LEARNING

SOL-MI: In some of this week’s activities, we will hear and sing the sol-mi pitch interval in music. Some experts believe this is one of the easiest intervals for young children to hear and to imitate. In a major scale the pitches sol and mi are the fifth and third scale degrees and create the interval of a minor third. (Sing Rain, Rain, Go Away, or Toys away, toys away – that’s Sol-Mi!)

AFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION: Affective communication between adults and babies can be encouraged through touch, eye contact, vocalization, and listening – all a part of the greeting ritual.

LABELING MOVEMENT: Children can recognize an object and understand movement long before they can use the language to tell you. We can help babies in developing their ability to speak by labeling movement and objects. They will then begin to connect the relationship between the word and the movement or object. After months of babble, your baby will begin to imitate these sounds and speak the words that previously she knew only by sight & sound.

Remember: if you’re holding your baby facing your chest and you move forward, you should label it “backwards”, as that is how your baby is moving.

OBJECT PERMANENCE: When your baby begins to search for a hidden object, this indicates that your baby remembers that the object continues to exist even though it cannot be seen. Object permanence is memory of behaviour and/or things seen but out of sight.

MOVEMENT POSITIONS: Baby-O allows the adult to move baby in a variety of ways such as crossing baby’s arms, lifting baby into the air, folding baby’s legs up to the head and swinging baby. Experiencing these movements and positions helps to develop baby’s vestibular system, muscle tone, and body awareness.