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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: 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: Space to Grow
Discuss how plants need a larger area to grow in as they get bigger.
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.
Talk Together: Talk About Sounds
Review sounds by playing back recordings of sounds children made while exploring.
Talk Together: “Three Little Mice”
Have children use their small motor skills as they recite a finger play about colors.
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.
Talk Together: Vegetable Parts
Discuss vegetable parts that people eat, including flowers.
Talk Together: What Floats? What Sinks?
Display a collection of balls. Have children predict which balls will float or sink.
Talk Together: Yellow in Nature
Discuss where children see the color yellow in nature.
Theme Music
Pick a “theme” song to help your toddler make transitions throughout the day.
Touch and Feel
Babies love to reach, grab, and touch everything! Help him safely explore his sense of touch.
Tummy Time
Get down on your baby’s level and enjoy fun times stretching, reaching, listening, and looking.
Use Your Hands
Play hand and finger games with babies during regular routines to help them strengthen small motor muscle and learn to use their hands.
Watch Together: “Colorful Food” (BTL clip) #2
Play the video Between the Lions “Colors and Food.” Have children name other plants that are the same color as the plants in the video.
Watch Together: “Doo Wop (short /a/)” (BTL clip)
Watch the video Between the Lions “Doo Wop (short a).” Clap the syllables in some of the words.
Watch Together: “Doo Wop (short e)” (BTL clip)
Play the video clip Between the Lions “Doo Wop (short e)" and point out that the singers are using the letter sound /e/ to make music.
Watch Together: “Doo Wop (short u)” (BTL clip)
Play the Between the Lions video “Doo Wop (short u).” Clarify that the singers use the letter sound /u/ to make music.