- chart paper
- marker
- hear
- listen
- quiet
- sound
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1a: Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (e.g., taking turns in talking, listening to peers, waiting to speak until another person is finished talking, asking questions and waiting for an answer, gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 1: Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (taking turns in talking; listening to peers; waiting until someone is finished; asking questions and waiting for an answer; gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 12: Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature.
Science and Technology/Living Things and Their Environment 15: Use their senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste to explore their environment using sensory vocabulary.
Sing Together: “Listen, Listen, Little Ears” #2
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ELA Focus Skills: Concepts of Print, Follow Directions, Phonological Awareness, Speaking and Listening
Educator Prep: Write the words to “Listen, Listen, Little Ears” on chart paper. Display the chart for children to see.
Sing “Listen, Listen, Little Ears” to children. As you sing, track the words and emphasize sweeping from the end of the line down to the next.
- Then sing the song again and invite the children to join you.
- Tell children that at the end of the song everyone will have a turn to name something they hear.
- Ask, After we sing, why do you think we will need to be quiet as children name something they hear around them?
Remind children that they are learning about their world as they listen for sounds all around them—just like the girl in the book The Listening Walk.
Listen, Listen, Little Ears
(sung to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”)
Listen, listen, little ears
Tell me what sounds you hear,
In the classroom or outside
Going on a school bus ride,
Listen, listen, little ears
Tell me what sounds you hear.