Your preschooler probably asks lots of questions and you may get tired of constantly answering them. If you are feeling like these question and answer sessions are a waste of time, think again. Watch your child closely and you may see this information coming out as they make up stories or substitute different words in a familiar song.
Your child is using this information to make sense of the world and their immediate surroundings. Watch them during play time, is their dog getting a time out for hitting others? Are they explaining to their baby brother why the sky is blue?
Here's one way you can encourage this kind of thinking and information processing:
Build a "Where Box"
Take any kind of box (the closer to square the better) and put a picture on each side of a place in or around your house. Once that's done pick an activity (you could put different activities on another box and roll it or just pick one out of the blue), let's say making a sandwich. Now roll the where box... the garage! Go to the garage and pretend to make a sandwich. Your child will laugh at the absurdity of it. They know you don't make sandwiches in the garage... out there you might have to have a bicycle tire and greasy rag sandwich. Now pick another activity and roll the Where box... you get the idea.
By singing a song and allowing your child to fill in the blanks, you are developing their sense of inner hearing as related to pitch and melody. Singing a song in your mind is akin to thinking a story or making a plan without speaking out loud. Remembering the sequence adds an additional level of complexity. It is a necessary life skill.
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