Activities That Will Enhance Your Child's Early Childhood Development
Audiation is the ability to hear music when no musical sound is present
. When you audiate, you have internalized music and are "thinking" music. This activity (Sorida) has an invitation to audiate when only the gestures of the song are presented, without any singing. Some children may spontaneously "fill in the blank", singing the missing music. Regardless of the response, this is an opportunity to engage the children's music listening and thinking skills.Integrated Learning: This activity provides a rich opportunity for integrated learning. IN this one activity children are asked to count, recognize counting visually and aurally (What does "three" look like in dots? What does "three" sound like on the drum?), and then make decisions based on what they see and hear, using their skill at classifying objects. (Which artist does "two" represent?) Additionally, the children's creativity is enhanced when they explore a variety of movements related to the artists.
Stimulation of the Vestibular System: What the developing brain needs for successful movement and cognitive growth is sufficient activation of the motor-cerebellar-vestibular system. A well-developed vestibular system provides emotional security, good muscle tone and develops sauditory language processing and visual - spatial processing. Stimulation of the vestibular system can occur through swinging, twisting, swaying, rocking, etc .
Literacy Development: This activity is one of many ways to share the importance of writing with children. Although children may not use "real' letters and words in their writing, the representational symbols used are an important building block in Literacy Development. Classrooms filled with print, language and literacy play... and writing allow children to experience the joy and power associated with reading and writing while mastering basic concepts about print that research has shown are strong predictors of achievement.
Process of Writing: Honoring children's communication in print form is good for their self-esteem and reinforces their budding notion that print carries meaning. And when the children are prompted to write their own thoughts, they are given a valuable opportunity to develop reflective skills (understanding of one's own feelings) and their skills of expression.
Predictable Texts: In the preschool years sensitizing children to sound similarities does not seem to be strongly dependent on formal training but rather on listening to patterned predictable texts while enjoying the feel of reading and language.
Children's Humour: Children's humor is limited by their experience and their cognitive development, so what they perceive as funny is altogether too obvious for the adult. Humor is dependent on the ability of the child to pretend and to have a playful orientation toward the situation in which humor occurs. Humor also is social. Children laugh longer in a group than when alone. Between the ages of 3 and 4, children delight in conceptual incongruity. Although the content of humor changes as the individual matures, the skill and confidence that children develop in this area enables them to participate successfully in a variety of social situations.
Musical and Dramatic Enactment: Musical and dramatic enactment of a story is one way to expand children's creative experiences by bringing together elements of guided imagery, music and movement, and the visual arts. Creative enactment is an important process for developing self-awareness and self-expression. Through it you and your children can expand the imagination, develop skills in body movement, gesture, and practice verbal and nonverbal communication.
Creating Own Imaginary City: This activity allows your child to create a city of his imagination. Children describe and interpret cities through their interactive life experiences in relation to where they live. They often notice the complexity of urban life and give energy to details of a city that may not be significant to adults. As much as is possible, let your child lead in this family activity, creating from this own ideas of what his city is.
Sense of Community: This circle dance (Zoom-e-oh) emphasizes the importance of community, being together with people of all ages to sing and dance. Within this context the children and parents experience an emotional and social bonding, a sense of belonging and a nurturing environment which supports parents and children.
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