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Itsy Bitsy Spider Puppet
* Lesson plan objective and assessment can be adapted to use this activity with mobile infants, toddlers or preschoolers.
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Stages of Social and Emotional Development in Infants
$10.50
Stages of Physical Growth and Development in Infants
$10.50
10 Hours Infant Training Package
$105.00
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Music Experiences with Infants and Toddlers
Music plays a powerful role in the lives of young children. Through
music, babies and toddlers can come to better understand themselves and their
feelings, learn to decipher patterns and solve problems, and discover the world
around them in rich, complex ways. Like
all the best learning experiences in early childhood, music activities
simultaneously promote development in multiple domains. Singing a lullaby while
rocking a baby stimulates early language development, promotes attachment, and
supports an infant’s growing spatial awareness as the child experiences her
body moving in space. Music, because it
is so often shared with others in singing, dancing, and playing instruments
together, is by its very nature a social experience. Music activities with infants
and toddlers offer them many opportunities to learn and practice self-regulation.
The experience of being soothed helps babies learn to soothe themselves. Playing songs and using musical styles from
children’s home cultures also creates continuity between home and the caregiving
setting.
Ways to incorporate music with infants and toddlers:
Three to Six Months:
Sing, chant, or recite rhymes to the child as you do everyday activities, such as changing diapers, feeding, cleaning up, and playing. Don’t worry if you do not sing well. The child will benefit from the one-on-one experiences. In addition, patting, rocking, and moving to music help enhance the child’s awareness of music and movement.
Six to Twelve Months:
Provide age-appropriate toys that make noises, such as rattles with different contents (beads, bells, sand). As you sit with the child, hold a toy and encourage the child to hold the toy as well. As you sing or play recorded music, shake your toy and invite the child to imitate your actions. This will not only help build musical awareness, but help develop small motor skills as well.
Twelve to Eighteen Months:
Provide the children with safe musical instruments such as jumbo jingle bells, shakers, xylophones, drums, and toy keyboards.
Instruments can also be fashioned from pots and pans, large plastic spoons, plastic containers, and coffee cans (be sure to securely wrap any sharp edges with heavy tape).
Eighteen to Twenty-Four Months:
Provide the children with scarves. The children should be free to explore the scarves as you play recorded music. The children will show more interest if you join them as they explore the scarves with the music (Jalongo & Isenberg, 1997).
Ways to incorporate music with infants and toddlers:
Three to Six Months:
Sing, chant, or recite rhymes to the child as you do everyday activities, such as changing diapers, feeding, cleaning up, and playing. Don’t worry if you do not sing well. The child will benefit from the one-on-one experiences. In addition, patting, rocking, and moving to music help enhance the child’s awareness of music and movement.
Six to Twelve Months:
Provide age-appropriate toys that make noises, such as rattles with different contents (beads, bells, sand). As you sit with the child, hold a toy and encourage the child to hold the toy as well. As you sing or play recorded music, shake your toy and invite the child to imitate your actions. This will not only help build musical awareness, but help develop small motor skills as well.
Twelve to Eighteen Months:
Provide the children with safe musical instruments such as jumbo jingle bells, shakers, xylophones, drums, and toy keyboards.
Instruments can also be fashioned from pots and pans, large plastic spoons, plastic containers, and coffee cans (be sure to securely wrap any sharp edges with heavy tape).
Eighteen to Twenty-Four Months:
Provide the children with scarves. The children should be free to explore the scarves as you play recorded music. The children will show more interest if you join them as they explore the scarves with the music (Jalongo & Isenberg, 1997).
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