Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Brown Teddy Bears Lessons

Lesson #7

Even young infants who do not show outward signs of learning are actually gaining from attending Sound Beginnings. A baby’s brain is highly sensitized to stimulus and will develop synapses based on the type of input received. Social engagement, pleasant interaction, movement, sounds, and patterns occurring in music will all stimulate the infant brain and enhance development.

Next week we'll sing these in class:

• Weather Bear
• Here is the Beehive
• Baby Bumblebee
• Name the Instruments
• Snowman
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
• Baby Bumblebee
• Flight of the Bumblebee
• Old Brass Wagon
• You Are My Sunshine

The development of the singing voice grows from a child’s natural desire to imitate. Children may sing spontaneously because it is joyous, playful, personal, expressive, and creative. By age 4 or 5, many children have developed their singing range; typically from the pitches of middle C to treble C. Sound Beginnings songs are designed to fall within children’s natural range.

Our transition activity allows us to feel steady beat and experience subdivision!

When children engage in pretend play they develop cognitive flexibility and creativity.

Optional home fun activity: Color the Weather Bear and cut out his clothes on pages 21-25 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 fun video of The Flight of the Bumblebee played on piano with a fun visual of all the notes that are in this fast song!

And I found this and just had to share because I thought it was so funny!

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:
	Research has shown that singing improves reading. Our classes prepare children for kindergarten by exploring concepts and skills such as name recognition, alphabet and phonetic awareness, counting, identifying colors, rhyming, telling time, and sequencing.

Have a musical day!    
-Ms. Bethany :)