- audio player
- class charts on music and sound
- recordings of music
- toy instruments
- music
- musical instruments
- pitch
- 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.
MA Draft STE Standards:
Physical Sciences/Matter and Its Interactions/PS4.B Apply their understanding in their play of how to change volume and pitch of some sounds.
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: Music Day #1
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STEM Key Concepts: Sounds have a source; Sounds vary in three ways: by volume (loud or soft), pitch (high or low), and timbre (quality)
ELA Focus Skills: Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Review with children what music is and all the ways they’ve learned to make music. Play a recording of a song and ask questions such as,
- What musical instruments can you hear?
- What are all the ways you’ve learned to make music with instruments?
- How can you change sounds to make music?
Allow children to play an instrument as they discuss making music. Encourage them to use new vocabulary as they share their observations. (For example, pluck, beat, blow, pitch, volume, and timbre) Review any class charts you created during the week to encourage discussion.
Then focus the discussion on Music Day, the open house that will take place on Friday. Discuss how people come together to make music in bands or otherwise. Ask questions such as,
- What story did we read about a girl who loved music and played in a band when she grew up?
- Do you remember any of the musical instruments played by the family members in My Family Plays Music?
- How does the family in Kitchen Dance make sounds together to make music? Do they need instruments?
Remind children of when they made sounds together, with partners and with the whole group. Tell children that they will have a Music Day tomorrow and today they will practice making music so they can play for any family members or friends who can come by to listen. Encourage children to invite family members and friends to watch their performance tomorrow.