- loud
- louder
- soft
- softer
- 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.
Sing Together: “Listen, Listen, Little Ears” #3
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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, Vocabulary
Tell children you are going to sing “Listen, Listen, Little Ears” two times. Explain that you want them to listen carefully to your voice and then sing along with you in a loud or soft voice.
- First have children join you in singing it in a soft voice. Have children repeat.
- Then sing it in a loud voice and have children repeat.
Talk about what it feels like in your throat when you sing loud and when you sing soft. Invite children to notice what their throat feel like when they change the volume in their singing. Ask children, Does it feel like you are singing harder (using more force) when you sing louder or softer?
Listen, Listen, Little Ears
(sung to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”)
Listen, listen, little ears,
Tell me what sounds you hear.
In the classroom or outside,
Going on a school bus ride.
Listen, Listen, little ears,
Tell me what sounds you hear.