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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.

Music Patterns

Play a musical pattern on toy instruments and have children say the pattern aloud with you as well as on their own.

Sort by Volume (Loud/Medium/Quiet)

Create a chart with three volume levels. Hold up a picture, ask someone to make the sound of it, and decide where to place that picture.