Monday, January 2, 2012

Make it Monday-Music


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Make it Monday- Music

You can use music to kick your child's speech and language into high gear!  What does music teach???  Music teaches your child to listen, attention, intonation, stress, beat, and so much more.  There are picture books that follow songs.  Intonation, stress and beat, help a child learn the flow of how we talk.  Put an action to the words of song, and then you can have a visual, gestural, and verbal representation of the song.  Do you want to boost your child's vocabulary?  Music offers the repetition that is key in vocabulary development.

" Putting words to music breaks them down into syllables, emphasizes key consonants and slows down the sounds of speech", says Sally Goddard Blythe, Director of the Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology, Chester. Can I hear an "oh yeah?" 

1. Go HERE to learn how to make musical instruments with your children!!!

2. A quick shaker/noise maker: Take an empty coffee can, fill it with dried beans, put the lid on the can, and tape it very well.

3. You can also break out your pans and wooden spatulas... and now you have a drum!



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