- audio player
- chart paper
- marker
- recordings of instrumental music
- musical instrument
- sound
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening: SL.PK.MA.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
English Language Arts/Language/L.PK.MA.1 Demonstrate use of oral language in informal everyday activities.
English Language Arts/Language/L.PK.MA.6 Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, listening to books read aloud, activities, and play.
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Language Development/Expressive Language Uses language to express ideas and needs.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2 Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
Talk Together: Musical Instruments
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STEM Key Concepts: Different objects make different sounds; Sounds vary in three ways: volume (loud or soft), pitch (high or low), and timbre (quality)
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Tell children you are going to play some music and you want them to listen for the musical instruments they can hear. Say, Listen closely for all of the musical instruments you can hear in the music.
After the music is over, ask, What musical instruments did you hear? What kinds of sounds do those instruments make? Guide children to use their new sound vocabulary to describe the sounds they hear.
Replay the music to help guide discussion and this time have children record their responses on chart paper.