A word about music posted at the bulletin board at Explorations, Chicha's preschool:
Children who grow up hearing music, singing songs and moving to the beat are enjoying what experts call "a rich sensory environment." That's just a fancy way of saying a child is exposed to a wide variety of tastes, smells, textures, colors and sounds. Kids who enjoy such a rich environment do more than have fun. Researchers believe they forge more pathways between cells in their brains.
Musical experiences are an important way to help create these pathways - also called neural connections. While listening to music is certainly key to creating them, it's when your child actively participates in music that she makes the strongest connections.
Research has shown that children who are actively involved in music (who play it or sing it regularly): do better in reading and math; are able to focus and control their bodies; play better with others and have higher self-esteem.
In light of that, it's high time we pay tribute to They Might Be Giants - who have been rocking for kids and forging pathways even way before we discovered The Alphabet of Nations. They have so so many songs we love, but here's three that can get Bear and Chicha singing, dancing and laughing. And hopefully... creating those neural connections.
Here's one about shapes. Everyone at the party is a many-sided polygon. When a guest arrives they will count how many sides it has on....
Here's a super-witty-funny song about words and letters. An epidemic of missing letters has swept the land. Whatever the cause, for the sake of future generations, in the limited time we have been permitted, these stories must be told....
Here you can have your toddler provide letter ID's with some cool visuals and funky tunes as background...
More They Might Be Giants here. Party at the playroom!
