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Explore Together (indoors): Pitch and Volume

Review various sounds with children. Have them listen to, identify, and sort pictures of sounds.

Explore Together (indoors): Shake and Listen

Have children choose materials and containers to explore making sounds. Challenge children to make loud and soft sounds with the shakers.

Explore Together (indoors): Tap and Scrape Sounds

Invite children to select from a set of materials to make and describe tap and scrape sounds. 

Explore Together (indoors): Voice Pitch

Children explore the concept of pitch using their voices. Have them say and listen to high and low sounds, and record them on a chart.

Explore Together (indoors): Voice Volume

Have children focus on exploring volume and timbre with their voices, and then create patterns of sounds for others to repeat.

Explore Together (outdoors): Listening Walk

Bring children outside on a listening walk and record the different sounds children hear.

Explore Together (outdoors): Listening Walk: Animal Sounds

Take children outdoors on a listening walk to listen for animal sounds. Have them focus on the source, volume, and pitch of the sounds.

Explore Together (outdoors): Outdoor Listening

Have children sit quietly outside and listen for the sounds around them and then explore the source of a sound.

Explore Together (outdoors): Outdoor Listening Walk

Pair children, have them track down outside sounds, and help them record their observations.

Explore Together (outdoors): Sound Map

Have children record on a map sounds they hear outside. Talk about the source of each sound.

Family Connection: Unit 3, Week 1

Send a Family Connection letter home with children.

Family Connection: Unit 3, Week 2

Send a Family Connection letter home with children.

Family Connection: Unit 3, Week 3

Send a Family Connection letter home with children.

Favorite Sounds

Have children draw pictures about their favorite sounds.  Ask questions about their drawings and write what they tell you under their picture.

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.

Fish for Letters: Target Words (night), (quiet)

Have children search for uppercase “N” from a tub of letters to complete the word night.  Repeat with the word quiet on another day.

Greeting Song: “Hickety, Pickety, Bumblebee” #1

Have whisper, stomp, clap, and shout out a child’s name to help them continue to identify other children in the group.

Greeting Song: “Hickety, Pickety, Bumblebee” #2

Sing “Hickety, Pickety, Bumblebee” with children and have each child sing his or her name in a loud voice.

Greeting Song: “Hickety, Pickety, Bumblebee” #3

Sing “Hickety, Pickety, Bumblebee” with children and have each child sing his or her name in a quiet voice.

Greeting Song: “Hickety, Pickety, Bumblebee” #4

Sing “Hickety, Pickety, Bumblebee” with children and have them make loud or quiet sounds with their shakers when they say their name.

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