Saturday, December 27, 2014

Happy Holidays!

Emma and I have been playing with her pat bells quite a bit this month as I've taken advantage of them to play things like "Jingle Bells" with her during the holiday season. One of the other songs we play is "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" as she knows it well and the melody is easy to copy on the bells. I started by playing them in front of her so she could watch and listen. I decided it was time to get her involved more and gave her one of the bells from the song (the red one). I was planning on having her play that bell each time the song called for it and play the others for her still so she could see and hear it. This quickly turned in to a talent show staring Emma.

She not only could play the bell each time the song called for it, but knew when to play it one time or two times. Then came a different challenge- I changed which bell she had. But still, my little star continued to amaze me. In just a couple short weeks, she was able to learn how to play each of the colors while I played the others. It made my holiday season all the more merry, so I had to share!