- box of art materials (including chalk, cotton balls, colored pencils, crayons, and white and other color paint)
- drawing paper
- glue
- loud
- quiet
- sound
MA Standards:
Writing/W.PK.MA.2: Use a combination of dictating and drawing to explain information about a topic.
Head Start Outcomes:
Approaches to Learning/Initiative and Curiosity: Demonstrates flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness in approaching tasks and activities.
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing: Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures, and letters to represent objects, stories, experiences, or ideas.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 15: Listen to, recognize, and use a broad vocabulary of sensory words.
English Language Arts/Composition 16: Use their own words or illustrations to describe their experiences, tell imaginative stories, or communicate information about a topic of interest.
Winter Scene
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Skill Focus: Creative Expression, Fine Motor Skills, Vocabulary
Play the video Between the Lions “Bear Snores On.” Set a listening focus for children by asking them to listen carefully to all of the sounds they hear in the video.
As they watch, encourage them to name the sounds and the sources of the sounds.
After viewing, have children draw a picture of one of the sounds from the video. Ask, What is one sound you heard from the video? What was the source of the sound? Can you draw it? Encourage children to talk about their drawings. Ask,
- What sound did you draw? What kind of sound is it?
- Is it a soft, whispery sound? A quiet sound? Or a loud, growly sound?
Have children make the sound as they explain their drawings.