For each radio show on Learn and Play with Mrs A, I take notes because I’m learning so much about kids and kindergarten readiness from fascinating guests who are experts in a variety of areas. Each of them is passionate about kids and loves the work, or maybe that’s play? Here’s a play-of-the-day suggested from our play-of-the-week conversations and a little information about these awesome guests.
Music impacts children’s learning and development at a deep level, even before they are born. Richard Leighton is a musician, songwriter, performer, producer, and advocate of music as a crucial part of children’s development. With a store/classroom his passion is to bring music into the lives of more and more children and he is accomplishing it everyday.
Here’s a play of the day from Richard, making a shaker with a plastic bottle and pebbles. Rhythm is hard-wired into our systems with heart beat, pulse, breathing, day/night cycles and more. Babies will like shaking and making noise, toddlers can create simple rhythms and older kids can explore more complicated ones. (***BE sure the lid is glued on so the rocks don’t escape.) What rhythms will you and your child create?
Richard Leighton’s facebook page is:
https://www.facebook.com/arbutusmusic
and here is the podcast download link: Richard Leighton/Learn&Play podcast