Babies, and Pathways in Movement

Parenting Tip: Travel in straight, zigzag, curvy, and circular pathways with baby!

 

Why?

Toddlers are kinesthetic learners.  They learn by moving, and doing! 

In movement activities, you're maximizing your child's spatial awareness by helping her to experience different pathways in her movement. 

By labeling the movement pathway you are taking, you are also building your child's vocabulary, and his understanding of what he is experiencing in class. 

These experiences, which connect vocabulary and movement, will build both vocabulary and movement skills.

 

How?

Talk words of position, with your child! 

Then, have some fun with a hulahoop :) 

Get out a throw blanket (or a bed-sheet) and take your child around the house on a blanket ride!  Will you take a straight, or curvy path?  Turn on the Waddaly Atcha song (from Kindermusik's Way Up High  CD), and ride away! 

 

Want to Learn More?

On our blog - did you know that movement activates the brain?

 

Kindermusik 7-Year Continuum:

As a baby, your child counts on you to move her body in a variety of ways – so that she knows what is possible.  In Kindermusik toddler classes, your child will use his vocabulary of movement experiences to move his own body to the music – movement is how toddlers learn best!  As a preschooler, your child will begin to use movement to express stories and music, using her own imagination.  In Young Child classes, your big kid makes use of the coordination & muscle control he's been developing over the years, as he holds glockenspiel mallets, and plays notes on his glockenspiel using just the right amount of force.  Small, quiet movements now become a lighter touch with the mallets, as big, loud movements become a heavier touch, producing more instrumental sound.