Week 3: How Does It Sound?

Learning Goals

STEM

Children will:

  • Notice differences in sounds and compare them using content vocabulary
  • Begin to understand that sounds can vary in volume (loud or soft), as well as in pitch (high or low)
  • Begin to understand that sounds have a source (a sound can be tracked to its source)
  • Begin to understand that an action has to happen to make a sound (cause and effect)
  • Investigate, identify, and record observations about sounds they hear outdoors

ELA

Children will:

  • Recognize, match, and form uppercase and lowercase “Oo” (Alphabet Awareness)
  • Identify the first letter (“Oo”) in the context of a word (on) (Alphabet Awareness)
  • Practice handling books and turning pages one at a time (Concepts of Print)
  • Listen for beginning sounds in familiar words (/o/) (Phonological Awareness)
  • Listen to and produce rhyming words (Phonological Awareness)
  • Follow directions (Listening and Speaking)
  • Engage in active viewing and listening (Listening and Speaking)
  • Ask and answer questions about a story (Comprehension)
  • Build understanding through text-to-self connections (Comprehension)
  • Listen to, develop understanding of meaning, and use new concept vocabulary about sound: city, country, high, listen, loud, louder, low, quiet, soft, softer, sound, volume (Vocabulary)
  • Be exposed to new concept vocabulary in cross-curricular ways (Vocabulary)

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL

Children will:

  • Continue building their concept of self as they say and identify their names
  • Recognize that the qualities of sound of their voices can reflect how they feel
  • Recognize when it is appropriate to change the volume of their voices
  • Begin to appreciate the differences in their voices
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