Using Music to Teach Self-Management

SEQUENCING and PATTERNS

Pattern awareness is crucial to learning and memory.  Just as in reading stories, singing and rhythmic speech expose participants directly to the patterns of language including rhythm, speech sounds, syntax, and rhyme.  With sequencing, we are able to put things in order form the first to the last.  Practicing this skill helps children prepare for reading comprehension & daily activities such as following a list of directions or instructions. Being able to break down a task into steps is also important in learning self-management, because appropriate sequencing helps a child reduce frustration and increase success. 

On our blog - read 10 Reasons Why Music Belongs in Our Schools!

Kindermusik @ Home:

• Log in to your Kindermusik @ Home account, and play a royal Math Game! 
• Then, Parrot the Pirate!  How many phrases can your child echo?  Can they remember the sequence?  What if you and your child made up your own sequence of echoes? 
• Cue up the Parrot Talk song, on your home CD.  Have your child teach you the game we played with the parrots, on the beach, this week.  (Fly like parrots during the instrumental parts, and echo the parrot whenever he speaks).