Wednesday, October 2, 2024 | Brown Teddy Bears Lessons

Lesson #6

Research has shown that from birth to the age of 9 years is the optimal time to expose children to music, and Sound Beginnings takes advantage of the earliest portion of this music-learning window. Meaningful exposure to music at a young age means musical skills will be more easily learned and internalized.   

Next week we'll sing these in class:

• Weather Bear
• Baby Bumblebee
• Here is the Beehive
• Snowman
• Major Scale
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
• Grizzly Bear
• Going to the Zoo
• Old Brass Wagon
• Flight of the Bumblebee
• Lavender's Blue

In music, solfege is a method used to teach pitch and sight singing and can be utilized at every level of music education. The brain connects more easily with pitch relationships if a syllable is attached, and hand signs physically reinforce those relationships. Singing melodies in solfege helps the student develop inner hearing, musical expressiveness, and a feeling for phrasing.

Learning sign language improves a child's vocabulary, spelling proficiency, and fine motor skills.

Rhythm instruments help children increase gross and fine motor skills, reinforce hand-eye coordination, and help develop a sense of beat and rhythm.

Optional home fun activity: Color the Four Seasons on page 4 in your workbook    
(Remember, these activities are optional but can be a great bonding experience to do with your child during the week.)  

Here's a video about the seasons that just happens to also have a brown bear in it! That one is a little long, so here's a shorter video about the seasons!

Sound Beginnings is education through musical play! It prepares children for success in Kindergarten and Let’s Play Music. Sound beginnings provides research-based elements that stimulate growth in the areas particularly crucial to the development of the young child. These elements make up the foundation of the Sound Beginnings curriculum.  Here is just one:
	Peek into a Sound Beginnings class and you will see skipping, crawling, dancing, and jumping! Full body movement builds large muscle strength, hand-eye coordination, aids brain-hemisphere function, and develops balance in young children.

Have a musical day!  
-Ms. Bethany :)