- audio player
- long sheets of paper
- markers
- paintbrushes
- recordings of children making sounds taken during the week
- tempera paints
- fast
- high
- indoor
- loud
- low
- mural
- outdoor
- paint
- soft
MA Standards:
SL.PK.MA.5 Create representations of experiences or stories (e.g., drawings, constructions with blocks or other materials, clay models) and explain them to others.
Head Start Outcomes:
Approaches to Learning/Initiative and Curiosity Demonstrates flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness in approaching tasks and activities.
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures, and letters to represent objects, stories, experiences, or ideas.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 3 Communicate personal experiences or interests.
What’s That Sound? #1
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Skill Focus: creative expression, listening to sounds, fine motor skills, vocabulary
Play back some of the recordings of children making sounds during the week. Encourage children to paint the source of each sound. Have them mimic the sound as they draw. Display the paintings with the names of the artists around the room. Invite viewers to guess which paintings represent loud sounds, soft sounds, high sounds, etc.