- audio player
- music tapes or CDs of children’s songs
- play microphones (toilet paper roll wrapped in aluminum foil)
- scarves
- toy animals or dolls
- toy instruments
- audience
- band
- baton
- conductor
- dancer
- microphone
- musical instrument
- musician
- singer
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Literature/RL.PK.MA.2 With prompting and support, retell a sequence of events from a story read aloud.
English Language Arts/Literature/RL.PK.MA.3 With prompting and support, act out characters and events from a story or poem read aloud.
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Book Appreciation and Knowledge Retells stories or information from books through conversation, artistic works, creative movement, or drama.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 10 Engage actively in read-aloud activities by asking questions, offering ideas, predicting or retelling important parts of a story or informational book.
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 12 Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature.
EEC Infant and Toddler Guidelines:
PW50. The older toddler engages in a variety of physical activities.
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Skill Focus: Listening and Speaking, Imaginative Play
Display instruments for children. Encourage children to name the musical instruments, how to play them, and the sounds they make. Encourage children to name the instruments. Then invite children to sing, dance, and play along with recordings of children’s songs. Toy animals and dolls can join the fun as singers, dancers, or the audience.
English Language Learners: Help develop children’s vocabulary by creating and describing a scene for them with items in the play center. Include nouns and verbs as you act out the scene. For example, help children set up their performance scene and use related nouns (audience, singer, dancer, song), and verbs (sing, cheer, play). Invite children to act in the scene with you. Give them sentence stems to help them describe what they are doing (The ___ sings a song (singer); The audience is ___ (cheering)).