- audio player
- lullaby music (print or recorded version)
- lullaby
- soft
- soothing
- voice
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.
Social Emotional Development/Self-Concept and Self-Efficacy: Identifies personal characteristics, preferences, thoughts, and feelings.
Social Emotional Development/Self-Regulation: Recognizes and labels emotions.
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.
Health Education 16: Recognize and describe or represent emotions such as happiness, surprise, anger, fear, sadness.
Talk Together: Lullabies
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STEM Key Concepts: Sounds have a source; Sounds vary in three ways: volume, pitch, and timbre
ELA Focus Skills: Making Connections, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Introduce children to the genre of lullabies. Set the mood by asking children to close their eyes. Tell them you are going to play a song for them.
- Explain to children that you are going to sing (or play) a song called a lullaby. Say, A lullaby is a soft, soothing song that is often sung before bedtime to help someone fall asleep.
- Play or sing a soothing lullaby. As children listen to the lullaby encourage them to wrap their arms around themselves and sway to the music as if they were in the arms of someone who loves them.
- Ask, How does the lullaby make you feel? What kind of voice do you think is best for singing a lullaby? Why do you think that?
Social Emotional Tip: Talk more about how sounds affect the body. Talk about how the soothing sounds of lullabies before bed help people feel calm and help their bodies relax, helping them to fall asleep.