By exploring with sound, babies and young toddlers practice their visual thinking skills or spatial-reasoning skills. Good visual thinking skills are essential for a child to later excel in math, science, and geography. We spend time in Kindermusik doing this together by playing different instruments and experimenting with lots of sounds, such as the different bird calls we “sing” together. Through the musical poems of Woodie Guthrie, bird songs and the naturally occuring sounds in nature babies develop an early appreciation and accelerated aptitude for language, movement and music in this class.