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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): Scarf Dance
Provide materials such as scarves, feathers, or strips of construction paper and have children move to music using these materials.
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.
“Favorite Sounds” Class Book
Have children draw something that makes a favorite sound. Ask children to dictate a caption. Tape all the pages together to create a class book.
Feel the Music
Play a piece of music and have children talk about how the music makes them feel. Ask them to draw how they feel.
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.
I Like to Make Music
Have children draw some of the ways they like to make music. Have children dictate a sentence to include at the bottom of the picture.
Independent and Partner Reading, Unit 4, Week 1
Encourage children to select a book that interests them and to look at the words and pictures on their own or with other children.
Independent and Partner Reading, Unit 4, Week 2
Encourage children to select a book that interests them and to look at the words and pictures on their own or with other children.
Independent and Partner Reading, Unit 4, Week 3
Encourage children to select a book that interests them and to look at the words and pictures on their own or with other children.
Join the Band #1
Invite children to form their own band, like Violet in the book Violet’s Music. Encourage children to name and talk about the different musical instruments.
Join the Band #2
Invite children to form their own band, like Lionel and Leona’s rooftop band. Encourage children to name and talk about the different musical instruments.
Learn About Letter Sounds Together: Bag of Sounds (/i/)
Ask children to pull out an object from a bag filled with objects beginning with the /i/ sound. Have children name the object emphasizing the /i/ sound.
Learn About Letter Sounds Together: Bag of Sounds (/j/)
Ask a child to pull an object from a bag filled with objects that begin with the /j/ sound. Name the object emphasizing the beginning /j/ sound.
Learn About Letter Sounds Together: Bag of Sounds (/l/)
Play a sound game to help children listen for and recognize the /l/ sound in the beginning of familiar words.