Experience Long and Short Sounds

Parents of Toddlers (2's & 3's)

Musical Parenting Tip:  Help your child experience long & short sounds.

Why?

• Your child’s awareness of a new concept is heightened, by experiencing opposites (like long vs short). 
• Through labeling this experience, your child is building his musical language vocabulary. 
• Learning about ‘long’ and ‘short’ now, prepares your child for preschool music terms like ‘legato’ and ‘staccato.’ 
• Experiencing different long/short patterns, strengthens her rhythmic awareness (preparing her for later study of notation in Kindermusik for the Young Child)

How?

• Help your child notice long & short sounds in music, and in your environment (what a long sound the firetruck siren makes!  Listen to the short sound of his horn!)
• Play the Bark & Meow game, then imitate other long & short sounds with your voice (oinking pigs vs. a mooing cow;  tweeting birds vs. a ‘whoo’ from an owl, etc).
• Play long & short sounds, with an instrument shaker, perhaps the elephant shaker.  Add a favorite song from your Kindermusik Home CD!

Want to learn more?

On our blog:  Read What Do You Hear?