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Explore Together (indoors): Different Voices, Different Pitch
Have children explore making different sound pairs with their voices (high sound and a soft sound; low sound and a loud sound, etc.).
Explore Together (indoors): Drums and Scrapers
Have children explore tapping and scraping sounds while using different materials. Encourage further exploration by occasionally commenting and/or posing questions.
Explore Together (indoors): Listening Through Tubes
Have children explore listening to sounds through tubes and hoses. Encourage children to make predictions and make sounds for each other to listen to.
Explore Together (indoors): Music Day Performance
Gather children in the same groups as yesterday. Play the same music children listened to yesterday. Allow children to practice their music or movements from the week.
Explore Together (indoors): Music Practice
Ask children what music they would like to play for Music Day. Have children explore and discuss what music they want to play.
Explore Together (indoors): Responding to Sound
Invite children to create their own music by responding to the sounds they hear indoors. Provide various materials and help children identify and imitate sounds.
Explore Together (indoors): Rubber Band Guitars
Help children place a rubber band around boxes, bread pans, etc. to make “rubber band guitars.” Have them explore making sounds with rubber bands.
Explore Together (indoors): Rubber Band Music
Encourage children to continue their exploration of sound by plucking on rubber bands and changing the pitch by stretching the rubber band.
Explore Together (indoors): Rubber Band Sounds
Have children continue exploring making sounds with rubber bands. Ask children to describe what they see when they pluck the rubber band. Introduce the word vibrate.
Explore Together (indoors): Talking Through Tubes
Invite children to explore talking through tubes. Guide children to talk or sing without the tube first, then with the tube to compare the sounds.
Explore Together (outdoors): Imitate Outdoor Sounds
Have children bring instruments outside for a listening walk. Encourage children to listen for sounds and imitate them with their instruments and voices.
Explore Together (outdoors): Outdoor Sounds
Allow children to explore freely making sounds on various outdoor surfaces. Tell children you want them to record at least one observation on a clipboard.
Feel the Vibrations
Explore vibrations with your child. Sing a song or hunt for things that vibrate to help her understand how sound is caused by vibrations.
Music Patterns
Play a musical pattern on toy instruments and have children say the pattern aloud with you as well as on their own.
Small Group: High and Low Material Sounds
Have children use various materials instead of their voices to continue exploring high and low sounds. Encourage children to work in pairs and to take turns.
Small Group: Making Group Music
In preparation for Music Day, have children listen to music and perform it in a group. Encourage small groups to try different volumes, pitches, and instruments.
Small Group: Making Music
Continue sharing and exploring making music in small groups. Invite the class as a group to give a concert of the sounds they made.
Small Group: More Tube Talk
Join small groups of children as they continue to explore listening and talking with tubes at the Math and Science Center. Help them explore vibrations as well.
Small Group: New Rubber Band Guitar
Have children join you in making rubber band guitars.
Small Group: Rubber Band Guitars
Have children continue plucking the rubber band guitars and watching the rubber bands move and vibrate. Talk about other things that vibrate to make sound.