- box drums
- charts from the unit
- play instruments
- real instruments
- rubber band guitars
- tubes
- tubing
- high
- loud
- low
- musical instrument
- soft
- sound
- 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: Make that Sound
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ELA Focus Skills: Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Discuss different sounds children have observed over the past weeks. Ask questions such as,
- When you turn the volume up on something like your TV or computer, what does it do? (makes the sound loud) Say, let’s turn the volume up loud on our voices and say “Good morning, everyone!” Then repeat with a soft voice as you turn the volume way down.
- What kinds of high pitch sounds did you explore? Have everyone demonstrate a high pitch sound they made, and then a low pitch sound. Allow children to demonstrate a sound using his or her voice or a musical instrument.
- Have one child make a sound and other children try to repeat it. Say, Can you repeat the sound? How will you repeat it? Guide children to talk about what materials (drum, rubber band guitar, voice) they are using to repeat the sound and what they are doing (tapping, shaking, plucking, etc.) to repeat it.
Tell children that they are going to go outdoors for another listening walk to listen for sounds they can mimic with their voices.