- children's shakers
- loud
- 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).
MA Draft STE Standards:
Physical Sciences/Matter and Its Interactions/PS4.B: Apply their understanding in their play of how to change volume and pitch of some sounds.
Head Start Outcomes:
Social Emotional Development/Self-Regulation: Follows simple rules, routines, and directions.
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.
Greeting Song: “Hickety, Pickety, Bumblebee” #4
© Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). All rights reserved.
STEM Key Concepts: Sounds have a source; An action has to happen to make a sound; Different objects make different sounds; Sounds vary in three ways: volume, pitch, and timbre
ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness, Speaking and Listening
Tell children that they will all sing “Hickety, Pickety, Bumblebee” along with you.
Explain that you will sing the song two times to each child. Say,
- For the first singing, make a loud shaker sound after you say your name.
- For the second time, make a quiet sound after you say your name.
Hickety, Pickety, Bumblebee
Won’t you say your name for me? (child says his or her name)
Let’s all whisper it. (all children whisper it)
Let’s all stomp it. (all children stomp it)
Let’s all clap it. (all children clap the syllables)
Let’s all shout it! (all children shout it)