1. Physical
• Improve both gross- and fine-motor skills
• Develop vestibular system, balance, and coordination
• Build key muscles for standing, walking, and running
• Use developing sense of steady beat to coordinate
complex movements
Music Matters
for a Baby’s Brain, Body, Heart and Soul!
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Music
• Exercise auditory discrimination
skills that will be critical
for language
• Explore relationships between
instrument movements
and sounds
• Recognize and be
soothed by
steady beat
• Begin to
explore and
express
musical
preferences
• Develop
predictable and comforting
routines around music
• Play!
Cognitive
• Boost brain power and stimulate
all senses
• Introduce identification of patterns
• Light up both sides of baby’s brain
• Strengthen and expand brain cells
and neuropathways
• Explore principles of cause-and-
effect through instrument play
Language and Literacy
• Build receptive and expressive language skills
• Develop coordination of small muscles and
vocal cords needed for vocalization
• Use gestures to develop early communication
• Practice language through rhymes,
rhythms, and chants
• Introduce reading and story time
Social and Emotional
• Build healthy family interactions and
strengthen early bonds
• Develop a safe, predictable space for music
time and play
• Begin to explore focus, listening skills, and
even turn-taking
• Provide rituals and routines for tricky
transition times