Activities To Develop Your Baby's Multi-sensory Learning
Many music activities in class and at home provide opportunities for Baby's multi-sensory learning style
. As you sing "Oh, Watch the Stars" and play the star game with Baby, you stimulate her up-close and distance eye development, visual tracking, and provide a visual experience of beat and rhythm. This visual activity also encourages focused attention.
Learning to listen and enjoy music helps develop an appreciation for music and also leads to a number other developmental avenues : cognitive (spatial awareness, engages the imagination), and social and emotional (connection between adult and child, awareness of moods).
The human brain learns best when we can integrate movement with information and concepts, when we are emotionally engaged in an activity, and when new information is related to experiences we have had. Baby needs more than exposure to music, she needs participation in music. She needs the interaction she gets in class and at home when you move and sing with her. Through these joyful musical experiences Baby is "learning" to love music for all of her life.
As you and Baby experience the contrast between a smoothly rolling ball and a jumpy, bouncing ball, she understands on a sensory level the difference between smooth, sustained movement, and sharp, detached movement. This is an important element of music and language.
High and low pitches create different physical responses. High pitches help Baby maintain alertness and energy required for learning, while lower pitches tend to calm and relax Baby. Exposure to high and low pitches and the spectrum in between is an important experience of variety for baby.
The early years are the optimum time for exposure to a rich variety of musical instruments, timbres, tonalities, tempi, rhythms, etc such as the sounds in "Flowers of Love".
by: Cheow Yu Yuan
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