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Divvy Up!
Show children how to divvy up or divide food as a character in their read-aloud.
Explore Together (indoors): Body Sounds
Have children explore making loud and quiet sounds with their hands, feet, and mouths.
Explore Together (indoors): Follow Along
Play a recoding of rhythmic instrumental music with a strong beat. Tap the rhythm and have children follow you.
Explore Together (indoors): More Shake and Listen
Have children predict which objects make the loudest sounds. Facilitate children’s explorations.
Explore Together (indoors): Mystery Shakers
Have children make shakers with different materials. Then have them listening to the shaker sounds and guess what object is inside making the sound.
Explore Together (indoors): Shake and Listen
Have children choose materials and containers to explore making sounds. Challenge children to make loud and soft sounds with the shakers.
Explore Together (indoors): Tap and Scrape Sounds
Invite children to select from a set of materials to make and describe tap and scrape sounds.
Explore Together (indoors): Voice Pitch
Children explore the concept of pitch using their voices. Have them say and listen to high and low sounds, and record them on a chart.
Explore Together (indoors): Voice Volume
Have children focus on exploring volume and timbre with their voices, and then create patterns of sounds for others to repeat.
Explore Together (outdoors): Listening Walk: Animal Sounds
Take children outdoors on a listening walk to listen for animal sounds. Have them focus on the source, volume, and pitch of the sounds.
Explore Together (outdoors): Outdoor Listening Walk
Pair children, have them track down outside sounds, and help them record their observations.
Explore Together (outdoors): Sound Map
Have children record on a map sounds they hear outside. Talk about the source of each sound.
Listening to Sounds #1
Play a video of children making sounds and have children recreate the sounds using different materials.
Loud, Medium, Quiet Sounds
Have children continue exploring making sounds with their shakers. Have children make loud, medium, and quiet sounds and have them explain how they made those sounds.
Sort Loud and Quiet Animal Sounds
Have children work together to sort toy animals or pictures of animals into those that make loud sounds and those that make soft sounds.
Talk Together: Exploring Sound
Have children discuss making sounds with shakers. Help them make connections between their explorations and the book What Is a Scientist?
Talk Together: Point to the Sound
Revisit the idea that every sound has a source. Introduce the idea that every sound travels one way, or in one direction.
Talk Together: Sounds Around Us
Talk about the different sounds children hear inside and outside the room. Encourage children compare the sounds they hear.
Talk Together: Talk About Sounds
Review sounds by playing back recordings of sounds children made while exploring.