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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 Box

Explore and create sounds with your child while using everyday objects.

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 Hunt

Turn an outdoor walk with your child into a hunt for sounds. Listen for sounds and identify where they come from.

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.

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.

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