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Sing Together: “Abiyoyo Is a Giant”
Have children vary the pitch as they sing and act out the song “Abiyoyo Is a Giant.”
Sort by Volume (Loud/Medium/Quiet)
Create a chart with three volume levels. Hold up a picture, ask someone to make the sound of it, and decide where to place that picture.
Sorting Instruments
Have children organize pictures of musical instruments by the method of how an instrument is played.
“Sounds Like Fun” (PEEP game) #1
Demonstrate how to play the PEEP online game “Sounds like Fun.” Show children how to click on the animals to hear the sounds they make.
“Sounds Like Fun” (PEEP game) #3
Demonstrate how to play the PEEP online game “Sounds like Fun.” Show children how to click on the animals to hear the sounds they make.
Talk Together: Exploring Sounds
Play some of the recordings of children exploring sounds with their rubber band instruments. Ask children to describe the sounds using descriptive words.
Talk Together: Exploring Surfaces and Sounds
Review children’s previous explorations of different surfaces and the different sounds they make. Talk about texture and prepare children for an outdoor exploration of surfaces.
Talk Together: Feeling the Music
Talk about how different music can make you feel happy, sad, or even silly. Play a piece of music and ask children how they feel.
Talk Together: High and Low
Recite a poem to demonstrate and talk about the concepts of volume and pitch. Facilitate a discussion on sounds with high and low pitches.
Talk Together: Make that Sound
Discuss all the sounds children have heard over the past weeks. Help them recall the sounds and demonstrate some of them.
Talk Together: Making Music
Introduce the idea of making music to children by playing a favorite musical recording. Talk with children about what they like about the music.
Talk Together: More Rubber Band Music
Gather children around the materials and invite them to talk about and demonstrate some of the observations they made while exploring making sounds with rubber bands.
Talk Together: Move to Music
Talk about some of the music the children have been listening to together. Play some music and invite children to move to the music.
Talk Together: Music Day #1
Review with children what music is, and all the ways they’ve learned to make music. Have children prepare for a music performance.
Talk Together: Music Day #2
Remind children that today is Music Day. Discuss the music each group will play. Have children discuss how they will put together the performance.
Talk Together: Musical Instruments
Have children listen to music and name instruments they hear.
Talk Together: Repeating Sounds
Replay some of the sounds children made this week. Have children discuss the sounds they made and repeat the sounds as they discuss.
Talk Together: Sound and Music
Display the rubber band guitars and tubes from the Discovery Time activities during the week. Review with children what they observed during their explorations.
Talk Together: Sound Explorers
Revisit the book What Is a Scientist? By Barbara Lehn. Help children make connections between their explorations of sound and the skills described in the book.
Talk Together: Tube Talk
Have children recall some of the ways they used tubes and some of the discoveries they have made while listening through tubes.