- rubber band guitars
- toy instruments
- materials that make sound when tapped and scraped
- instrument
- music
- pluck
- scrape
- tap
MA Standards:
Literature: RL.PK.MA.8.a Respond with movement or clapping to a regular beat in poetry or song.
Foundational Skills: RF.PK.MA.2.c Identify the initial sound of a spoken word and, with guidance and support, generate several other words that have the same initial sound.
Head Start Outcomes:
Social Emotional Development/Self-Regulation Follows simple rules, routines, and directions.
Literacy Knowledge/Phonological Awareness Identifies and discriminates between sounds and phonemes in language, such as attention to beginning and ending sounds of words and recognition that different words begin or end with the same sound.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 8 Listen to, identify, and manipulate language sounds to develop auditory discrimination and phonemic awareness.
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 14 Recognize and supply rhythm and rhyme in poetry.
Word Play: “Eenie Meenie Mynie Mo”
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ELA Focus Skills: Phonological Awareness (Alliteration, Beginning Sounds)
Tell children you are going to teach them a rhyme about a monkey. Say the rhyme through once very slowly.
- Give each child an instrument. Tell them you are going to say the rhyme again, but this time you want them to tap, pluck, or scrape their instrument when they hear a word that begins with the /m/ sound. Say the rhyme again slowly.
- Then chant the rhyme at a normal pace and ask children to make music to the rhythm as they sing along. Make up a melody and sing the rhyme together.
Eenie Meenie Mynie Mo
Eenie meenie mynie mo
A monkey ate my marshmallow.
English Language Learners: If English Language Learners are having trouble with the /m/ sound, partner them with native English speakers and have them practice together saying the words me, map, and music.