Greeting Song: “Welcome, Welcome” #2

  • name cards
  • loud
  • soft
  • volume

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: “Welcome, Welcome” #2

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STEM Key Concepts: Sounds have a source; Sounds vary in three ways: volume, pitch, and timbre

ELA Focus Skills: Follow Directions, Speaking and Listening

Tell children you are going to sing “Welcome, Welcome” with them again.

  • Explain that you will hold up a name card and look directly at the child. Then you want that child to experiment with the volume of their voices.
  • Say, After I hold up your name card and we say “Welcome, welcome” to you, I want you to say your name two times--once in a loud voice, then in a soft voice!

Welcome, Welcome
Welcome, welcome <name of a child>,
Now you’re here,
We’ll have some fun.

First we’ll clap our hands just so,
Then we’ll bend and touch our toes.

Welcome, welcome <name of a child>,
Now you’re here,
We’ll have some fun.

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