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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.
Small Group: Find the Sound
Play a listening game with children to have them practice using their sense of hearing to find the source of sounds.
Small Group: High or Low?
Play recordings of high and low sounds. Ask children to identify the sounds by pitch.
Small Group: More Shake and Listen Indoors
Have children continue to explore making sounds with the shakers and use concept vocabulary to describe the sounds.
Small Group: More Tap and Scrape
Have children continue to explore sounds with the tap and scrape materials.
Small Group: Shake and Listen Some More
Have small groups of children continue to explore predicting and making sounds with the shakers made of different materials.
Small Group: Shaker Match
Join small groups of children at the Science and Math Center to have children focus on making pairs of mystery shakers.
Small Group: Tap and Scrape
Have children make more tap and scrape sounds then invite them to mimic each other’s sounds.
Small Group: Whose Voice Is It?
Play back recordings of children’s voices and have them identify who is speaking by listening to the sound of the voice.
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.