- listen
- louder
- quieter
- rumble
- sound
- squeak
- tweet
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
Language/L.PK.MA.1: Demonstrate use of oral language in informal everyday activities.
MA Draft STE Standards:
Physical Sciences/Matter and Its Interactions/PS4.A: Investigate different sounds made by different objects and different materials and reason about what is making the sounds. [Cause and Effect]
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Language Development/Expressive Language: Uses language to express ideas and needs.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
Science Knowledge/Scientific Skills and Method: Uses senses and tools, including technology, to gather information, investigate materials, and observe processes and relationships.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2: Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions
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.
Talk Together: Sounds Around Us
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STEM Key Concepts: Sounds have a source; Different objects make different sounds; Sounds vary in three ways: volume, pitch, and timbre
ELA Focus Skills: Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Have children gather in a circle and sit quietly. Say, Let’s listen quietly to the sounds around us. Ask, What sounds do you hear? Talk about the different sounds children hear inside and outside the room. Ask questions such as,
- What sounds are inside? What sounds are outside? How are the inside and outside sounds different? How are they the same?
- What do you think is making the sounds?
Talk about whether children hear the same sounds at home or on their way home. Ask questions such as,
- What sounds did you hear last night outside?
- Are those the same sounds we hear at school?
- Are the sounds louder or quieter where you live?
Have children compare the sounds they hear, in volume and type, encouraging and introducing the use of descriptive terms such as rumble, squeak, and tweet.