- recordings of plucking and tap and scrape sounds
- rubber band guitars
- instrument
- sound
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: Exploring Sounds
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STEM Key Concepts: Different objects make different sounds; Sounds vary in three ways: volume (loud or soft), pitch (high or low), and timbre (quality)
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Play some of the recordings of children exploring making sounds with their rubber band instruments. Ask children to describe the sounds and try to mimic the sound on their rubber band guitars.
Encourage children to use descriptive terms, key concept vocabulary in their descriptions (high, low, pitch), and to connect the sounds to their own world. (Juanita made a squeaky sound. It sounded just like my pet hamster.)