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Divvy Up!
Show children how to divvy up or divide food as a character in their read-aloud.
Explore Together (indoors): Body Sounds
Have children explore making loud and quiet sounds with their hands, feet, and mouths.
Explore Together (indoors): Follow Along
Play a recoding of rhythmic instrumental music with a strong beat. Tap the rhythm and have children follow you.
Explore Together (indoors): More Shake and Listen
Have children predict which objects make the loudest sounds. Facilitate children’s explorations.
Explore Together (indoors): Mystery Shakers
Have children make shakers with different materials. Then have them listening to the shaker sounds and guess what object is inside making the sound.
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: 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 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.
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.
Listening to Sounds #1
Play a video of children making sounds and have children recreate the sounds using different materials.
Loud, Medium, Quiet Sounds
Have children continue exploring making sounds with their shakers. Have children make loud, medium, and quiet sounds and have them explain how they made those sounds.
Nighttime Sounds, Morning Sounds
Listen to and identify sounds with your child at bedtime and in the morning. Describe how they are the same or different.
Small Group: More Shake and Listen Indoors
Have children continue to explore making sounds with the shakers and use concept vocabulary to describe the sounds.
Small Group: More Tap and Scrape
Have children continue to explore sounds with the tap and scrape materials.
Small Group: Shake and Listen Some More
Have small groups of children continue to explore predicting and making sounds with the shakers made of different materials.
Small Group: Shaker Match
Join small groups of children at the Science and Math Center to have children focus on making pairs of mystery shakers.