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Sing Together: “Listen, Listen, Little Ears” #1
Teach children a song about listening and invite them to sing along with you.
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.
Sort Loud, Medium, and Quiet
Place pictures on a table. Have children sort the sounds the things in the pictures make into loud, medium, and quiet sounds.
Sound Detective Agency
Have children shake containers that contain different objects that make different sounds. Have them listen carefully and find a matching container with the same sound.
Sound-makers
Have children use materials to make sound-makers and record their observations.
Talk Together: Changing Our Voices
Discuss how everyone's voice has a different sound. Have children record their names and listen to the voice differences.
Talk Together: Different Sounds
Ask children to name sounds they heard on their way home yesterday and talk about why children heard different 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: High and Low Voices
Have children use content vocabulary to compare the sound of each other’s voices.
Talk Together: High or Low? Loud or Soft?
Review the concepts of pitch and volume with children. Have them identify sounds as high, low, loud, or soft.
Talk Together: Loud and Soft Voices
Talk about changing voice volume with children and have children practice changing the volume of their own voices.
Talk Together: Loud, Louder, Loudest
Have children make sounds that are loud, louder, and loudest and soft, softer, softest.
Talk Together: Lullabies
Have children close their eyes as you play or sing a soothing lullaby and then talk about how it makes them feel.
Talk Together: Nighttime Sounds
Darken the room and have children imagine it is nighttime and talk about the nighttime sounds they hear.
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: Sound Scientists
Revisit the book What Is a Scientist? and have children compare their explorations to the descriptions in the book.
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: Sounds We Hear
Ask children to think about sounds they heard on the way home or at home last night.
Talk Together: Stand High, Crouch Low
Have children stand high or crouch low as the identify high and low pitch sounds.
Talk Together: Talk About Sound
Introduce “loud” and “quiet” as children listen for sounds and discuss the source of each sound.