Learning Goals
STEM
Children will:
- Predict, investigate, and identify sounds indoors and outdoors
- Listen to, describe, and compare sounds
- Compare and contrast the volume (loud, louder, loudest) and pitch (high, low) of different sounds
- Identify and sort sounds that are the same and different
- Talk about how sounds are made (cause and effect)
- Reflect, share, and record ideas about sound
ELA
Children will:
- Recognize, match, and form uppercase and lowercase letters (“Jj” and “Ll”) (Alphabet Knowledge)
- Identify letters (“Jj” and “Ll”) in context of words (jazz and loud) (Alphabet Knowledge)
- Learn to turn pages, one at a time, front to back (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 (Comprehension)
- Listen for beginning sounds in words (/j/ and /l/) (Phonological Awareness)
- Identify and repeat alliterative sentences (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 identifying their preferences in music and articulating them
- Develop self-expression as they paint to music
- Begin to explore their feelings as they identify how certain music affects them