- sound charts from previous weeks
- high
- loud
- low
- pitch
- soft
- volume
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
Language/L.PK.MA.1: Demonstrate use of oral language in informal everyday activities.
Language/L.PK.MA.6: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, listening to books read aloud, activities, and play.
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Language Development/Expressive Language: Uses language to express ideas and needs.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2: Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
Talk Together: Stand High, Crouch Low
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STEM Key Concepts: Sounds have a source; Different objects make different sounds; Sounds vary in three ways: volume, pitch, and timbre
ELA Focus Skills: Following Directions, Gross Motor Skills, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Tell children you are going to play a sound game with them.
- Say, When I sing a high pitch note, stand up tall and stretch as high as you can. When I sing a low pitch note crouch way down low.
- Sing the note, and model the body position as you explain the rules of the game. Practice a few times and then begin.
- Notice if any children have a difficult time recognizing the pitch and help them hear by standing next to them and whispering, That’s a very high pitch, let’s stand up! or That’s really low, let’s crouch low!
- Repeat the game with volume and loud and soft.
Revisit the sound charts from the week and have children tell of new discoveries about sound. Add the new ideas to the charts.