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Review the Week Together: Unit 3, Week 2
Review loud and quiet sounds and have children share a favorite activity from the week.
Review the Week Together: Unit 3, Week 3
Review sounds of different volume, pitch, and timbre with children and animal sounds heard on a listening walk.
Sing Together: “Listen, Listen, Little Ears” #1
Teach children a song about listening and invite them to sing along with you.
Sing Together: “Listen, Listen, Little Ears” #2
Sing “Listen, Listen, Little Ears” and have children name something they hear.
Sing Together: “Listen, Listen, Little Ears” #3
Sing “Listen, Listen, Little Ears” with children. Have children sing it in a loud voice, then a second time in a soft voice.
Sing Together: “The Wheels on the Bus” #1
Ask children to share sounds they might hear when riding a bus. Sing and act out the motions to “The Wheels on the Bus.”
Sing Together: “The Wheels on the Bus” #2
Sing the “Wheels on the Bus.” Encourage the children to make up new lyrics for a different machine, place, or animal.
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.
Sound Riddles
Have children draw something from the week’s reading that makes sound. Using a template, help them complete riddles describing the sound the object makes.
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 Quiet
Create a chart listing loud and quiet sounds and discuss reasons for using loud or quiet voices.
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.