- chart paper
- marker
- “Night Music” poem chart
- city
- country
- night
- sound
MA Standards:
Foundational Skills/RF.PK.MA.1: With guidance and support, demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of printed and written text: books, words, letters, and the alphabet.
Writing/W.PK.MA.2: Use a combination of dictating and drawing to explain information about a topic.
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Expressive Language: Uses language to express ideas and needs.
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing: Recognizes that writing is a way of communicating for a variety of purposes, such as giving information, sharing stories, or giving an opinion.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Composition 16: Use their own words or illustrations to describe their experiences, tell imaginative stories, or communicate information about a topic of interest.
English Language Arts/Composition 17: Add details or make changes to published or class-made stories.
Draw and Write Together: Night Music
© Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). All rights reserved.
STEM Key Concepts: Different objects make different sounds
ELA Focus Skills: Concepts of Print, Vocabulary
Educator Prep: Print out the Between the Lions “Night Music” poem chart or copy the words on chart paper.
Reread the Between the Lions “Night Music” poem chart aloud.
Tell children they are going to compose a new “Night Music” poem together.
- Read the poem again and tell children that the poem they create will be based on city sounds, not country sounds.
- Complete each line with the object that is the source of a sound and a word that describes the sound. (Listen to the car horns, beeping, beeping, beeping. Listen to the cell phones, ringing, ringing, ringing.)
As you write, talk about where each line starts and the words you are adding to each line. Point to each word as you read aloud the chart.
Night Music (original)
Night in the country,
Listen to the sounds.
Night in the country,
There are noises all around.
Listen to the wind,
Whispering through the trees.
Listen to the frogs,
Chanting in the breeze.
Night in the country,
Listen to the sounds.
Night in the country,
There’s music all around.
City Night Music
Night in the city
Listen to the sounds.
Night in the city.
There are noises all around.
Listen to the .
Listen to the .
Listen to the .
Listen to the .
Night in the city,
Listen to the sounds.
Night in the city.
There’s music all around.
Take It Further: Have children illustrate one or two of the sounds on a quarter sheet of paper. Then tape the illustrations on the poem chart and display at children’s level.