Learning Goals
STEM
Children will:
- Notice differences in sounds and compare them using content vocabulary
- Begin to understand that sounds can vary in volume (loud or soft), as well as in pitch (high or low)
- Begin to understand that sounds have a source (a sound can be tracked to its source)
- Begin to understand that an action has to happen to make a sound (cause and effect)
- Investigate, identify, and record observations about sounds they hear outdoors
ELA
Children will:
- Recognize, match, and form uppercase and lowercase “Oo” (Alphabet Awareness)
- Identify the first letter (“Oo”) in the context of a word (on) (Alphabet Awareness)
- Practice handling books and turning pages one at a time (Concepts of Print)
- Listen for beginning sounds in familiar words (/o/) (Phonological Awareness)
- Listen to and produce rhyming words (Phonological Awareness)
- Follow directions (Listening and Speaking)
- Engage in active viewing and listening (Listening and Speaking)
- Ask and answer questions about a story (Comprehension)
- Build understanding through text-to-self connections (Comprehension)
- Listen to, develop understanding of meaning, and use new concept vocabulary about sound: city, country, high, listen, loud, louder, low, quiet, soft, softer, sound, volume (Vocabulary)
- Be exposed to new concept vocabulary in cross-curricular ways (Vocabulary)
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL
Children will:
- Continue building their concept of self as they say and identify their names
- Recognize that the qualities of sound of their voices can reflect how they feel
- Recognize when it is appropriate to change the volume of their voices
- Begin to appreciate the differences in their voices