- construction paper
- crayons
- markers
- Violet’s Music (book)
- like
- music
MA Standards:
Writing: W.PK.MA.2 Use a combination of dictating and drawing to explain information about a topic.
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures, and letters to represent objects, stories, experiences, or ideas.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
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.
I Like to Make Music
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Skill Focus: Creative Expression, Vocabulary
Have children think of some ways they have explored making music. Hold up the book Violet’s Music and ask, How does Violet make music all day long? Show children different illustrations of Violet making music. Then ask, What are some ways you like to make music? Tell children you want them to draw a picture of making music. At the bottom of children’s drawings, write the sentence frame I like to ____ to make music. Have children write or dictate how they like to make music and fill in the sentence frame with their words. Hang children’s drawings in the Art Center.
English Language Learners: Invite children to perform a favorite song from his or her culture. Say, Do you have a favorite song that you hear at home? What is it? Invite others to dance to the song as the child sings.