Developmental Notes: See What I Saw Week 4

Literacy & Dramatic Play enable children to:
- understand specific vocabulary terms
- express their feelings
- demonstrate their understanding through role-playing
- utilize their memory of actions and story sequences
- develop cooperative social skills, problem solving, and ability to coordinate actions with other children

Exploring Wood Instruments: The 3-5 year-old child has a disposition of curiosity and will conduct thorough investigations when given the chance. Exploring wood instruments provides an opportunity for children to learn and discover by finding new information, making comparisons, categorizing, conducting sound experiments, and talking about their findings. This kind of learning strengthens thinking skills which can then be transferred to any other learning experience.

Literacy & Movement: Through moving up and down, back and forth, and climbing up and falling down, the child experiences a variety of ways in which one’s body moves through space and time. Through these movement experiences, the child’s understanding of spatial terms is expanded. This type of active and interactive learning through storytelling strengthens both literacy and movement.

Rondo Form: The predictable nature of the rondo form of the Grasshopper Park Instrumental Medley (ABACADA) makes it possible for the children to anticipate the order of the music and movement. Learning to predict is important in other areas such as: reading comprehension, problem solving, sequencing, memory, and recall.

Analytical Listening: Analytical Listening requires children to discriminate one sound from another, ie: trombone, clarinet, and slide whistle sounds. This leads to identifying personal preferences in recognizing the beauty of sound.