Playing with Patterns teaches Predictability (Even with Babies)

Musical Parenting Tip:  Notice and experience musical patterns with your child (0-24 months)

Why?

• Recognizing patterns is an important building block of learning.  It allows your child to better predict what is coming next. 
• Music is both sound & silence.  Silence allows us to wait, listen, and try to anticipate/predict what will come  next.
• When patterns & related groupings of information are bound together as a unit, the volume of material stored, increases. Patterns, then , become an important avenue for recall & memory.

How?

• Play ‘In the City,’ from the On the Town with Bear album.  Have fun dancing & stopping, during the ‘gooo, and stop!’ parts of the song!  Can you play an instrument, and ‘go & stop’ with that, too?
• Add sign language for ‘stop, look, and listen’ to your games. 
• Put a shaker in a container, and play the Little Red Box song. ( If you like, change the words to match your container).  Take a long, suspenseful pause, before you ‘put it back again.’

Want to Learn More?

On our blog – read 3 ways kids learn math through music

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