Learning Goals
STEM
Children will:
- Understand and create different sounds with various materials (pluck, tap, shake, beat, rub, and blow)
- Understand that sound is caused by vibration
- Continue to develop scientific skills through exploration, observation, and documentation of information
- Predict and describe sounds that different materials make when hit or plucked; Reproduce sounds after hearing them
- Recognize that sounds have different volumes, pitches, and qualities (timbre); Be able to compare and contrast the volume, pitch, and timbre of sound through listening and making sounds
ELA
Children will:
- Recognize, match, and form uppercase and lowercase “Mm” (Alphabet Knowledge)
- Match letters in first name, capital and lowercase (Alphabet Knowledge)
- Learn to turn pages one at a time, front to back (Concepts of Print)
- Identify front and back covers of a book (Concepts of Print)
- Identify and understand the roles of author and illustrator (Concepts of Print)
- Follow directions (Listening and Speaking)
- Engage in active viewing and listening (Listening and Speaking)
- Build understanding through text-to-self and text-to-world connections (Make Connections)
- Listen for initial sounds in words (/m/) (Phonological Awareness)
- Listen to, develop understanding of meaning, and use new concept vocabulary words about sound including band, beat, blow, feel, music, instrument, music, pluck, tap, and vibrate (Vocabulary)
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL
Children will:
- Begin to build self-concept by developing their preferences in music and articulating them
- Develop self-expression as they play with their voice and sing for others
- Begin to explore their feelings as they identify how certain music affects them