Put The Rhythm In Your Feet!
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This week in Music Together we talked about how rhythm develops. We are all born with ability to move and, nurtured in a proper developmental environment, that movement will change from our own rhythm to one that matches the music we hear and we are making. We can first express rhythms with our voice, then we learn to put that rhythm in the top half our bodies, and lastly we learn to express it in the lower half of our bodies. This is called the cephalocaudal trend.
"The cephalocaudal trend is the prenatal growth from conception to 5 months when the head grows more than the body. It is also the trend of infants learning to use their upper limbs before their lower limbs."
Some people never develop the ability to keep the beat in their feet. Whether you can keep a beat in your feet or not you will help your child develop this ability simply by moving your feet to the music. Even if your dance ins't "correct" you are still showing your child that it is OK and good to dance and move. So turn up the music and dance this week at home!
When we played drums this week I asked you to try lightly patting the beat on your child's back to help them find the beat on the drum. This is a great activity to try at home when you are playing along with music! I encourage you to give it a try and let me know how it goes!
Our dances this week were from the current Music Together collection, Triangles. They were "Allee Galloo" and "Hey, Ho, Nobody Home."
Our play along song was "Sabre Dance" by Aram Kachaturian
"The cephalocaudal trend is the prenatal growth from conception to 5 months when the head grows more than the body. It is also the trend of infants learning to use their upper limbs before their lower limbs."
Some people never develop the ability to keep the beat in their feet. Whether you can keep a beat in your feet or not you will help your child develop this ability simply by moving your feet to the music. Even if your dance ins't "correct" you are still showing your child that it is OK and good to dance and move. So turn up the music and dance this week at home!
When we played drums this week I asked you to try lightly patting the beat on your child's back to help them find the beat on the drum. This is a great activity to try at home when you are playing along with music! I encourage you to give it a try and let me know how it goes!
Our dances this week were from the current Music Together collection, Triangles. They were "Allee Galloo" and "Hey, Ho, Nobody Home."
Our play along song was "Sabre Dance" by Aram Kachaturian
