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Education Station 
Helping at Home
Things to do at Home: Music and Singing
Sing songs and have your child fill in specific sounds at certain parts. For example, sing "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" and have your child fill in the animal sounds. Or have your child say the "ee-ii-ee-ii-oo" part, using hand signals to visually represent high and low pitch: a raised hand for high pitch, a lowered hand for low pitch. Sing "If You're Happy and You Know It." Initially do the traditional body movements such as "clap your hands" and "stamp your feet." Gradually work up to adding verbalizations: "If you're happy and you know it, say la, la, la... If you're happy and you know it, say dee, dee, dee... If you're happy and you know it, say ho, ho, ho... Sing songs such as "BINGO," "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt," or "The Wheels on the Bus" (with different voices for different verses) to emphasize loud and soft voices. Music boxes that are wound and can be made to play slower may help draw your child's attention to pitch and speed. Sing one note then encourage your child to sing it with you, pointing up or down to indicate which direction the child should go to "meet up" with you. If this is too difficult, try starting about a half octave below the note and slide up to it very slowly. Get your child to slide up, too. When your child reaches the note itself, tell her/him how wonderful it is. Then start again on a note a step up. Cueing for volume control: use "little voice," "medium voice," and "BIG VOICE." Give direction such as "let's use our little voice" or "now let's use our BIG voice"; accompany these spoken directions with hand cues for little and BIG. Check out Songs for Learning Early Speech Sounds, "Award-winning children's singer-songwriter Cathy Bollinger sings this collection of 12 songs for early speech sound development. Each song features a specific consonant sound, and gives children the opportunity to hear the sound in a playful song. Lyrics are included." http://www.new-vis.com/p-cat.htm (Click on "get catalog" to view description.) Item MU-58-CA, $10.00. (Cathy Bollinger's Songs for Learning Early Speech Sounds also available at Rivanna Music, http://www.rivannamusic.com/about.html.) More Information: See Casette Tapes and CDs Links: Games and Music for Children Jim Henson, http://www.henson.com
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