Language skills may be increased through playing with the sound of familiar word patterns. This week engage your child in vocal play. In the "Our Time" class, we have become familiar with the patterns and rhythm of "To Market". Here's another fun thing you can do at home with this child's verse: Switch things up and choose one phrase to repeat two or three times:
To market,To market,To market,To market
Plum Bun, Plum Bun
Jiggety jiggety jiggety jig
Home again, Home again, Home again Home again
Invite your child to echo what you are saying
Point to yourself while you say a phrase
and then gesture to your child and invite them to echo back what you said.
With an older child you may want to try it the other way around too. This video has a great example of this toward the end... but watch the whole thing, it's really cute!
During vocal play the child experiences rhythm, accents, synchronization and tempo all integral parts of communication. When your child is exposed to environments rich in spoken, written and gestural language neural dendrites and circuits in the brain are stimulated causing the brain's language centers to grow, thus allowing the child to understand and speak efficiently.
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