What Toddlers Know: Your child is learning to anticipate. Call and response, patterned sounds, and imitation are all activities that help develop a child's sense of anticipation and predictably. Just as she is learning to repeat or "fill in the blanks" verbally, she will enjoy guessing what comes next in musical, movement, and sound patterns.
What You Can Do:
Read a favorite book together. Stop before the last word, and let your child fill in the blank!
Sing along with your Zoo Train Move-Along CD as you go about your daily activities. Errands to run? Pop the CD in your car player to continue the fun! Point at things around the house. Give your child a list of rhyming words and encourage her to name the item. (ie. point at the dog and say "Is that a log? Is it a frog? No its a .....!")
Music Time:
Classics for Children (Decca Records 1999). Debussy's "The Children's Corner," Bizet's "Children's Games," Shumann's "Scenes from Childhood," Provofieff's "Peter and the Wolf" -- this is a wonderful inclusive collection of classical favorites.
Book Time:
Polar Bear Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin, illustrated by Eric Carle (Henry Holt, 1991). Sparkling text and jewel-tone collages lead readers through a zooful of animals, as each is asked the repeating question, "what do you hear?" The roaring, snorting, braying, fluting answers make for perfect read-aloud fun.
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