The games the children played today helped them practice identifying sounds. I used hidden musical instruments to make a sound and the children made a guess. Then the children wanted a turn to make a sound!
Monday 26 September 2011
Group Time Sept. 26
Line of Inquiry: How sounds are made and heard
The games the children played today helped them practice identifying sounds. I used hidden musical instruments to make a sound and the children made a guess. Then the children wanted a turn to make a sound!
Donald Crews' story Shortcut is about children who decide to take a shortcut home and walk along the train tracks. Soon they hear the sounds of an oncoming train! Danger mounts and the children narrowly escape harm. The children participated in the story telling by making the train sounds. A song game was played "Clickety Clickety Clack" and everyone joined the train as it moved forward, backward and forward again. Everyone co-operated and worked together to build a train track. The sounds of trains and whistles chugging along were great as the children lost themselves in play!
The games the children played today helped them practice identifying sounds. I used hidden musical instruments to make a sound and the children made a guess. Then the children wanted a turn to make a sound!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
What a wonderful way to draw all these connections quite naturally.
ReplyDeleteI bet they'll recall all of this next time they hear a real train.
It was interesting how long building the tracks held their attention - it was a bit noisy and took up a lot of floor space and they had many opportunities to co-operate and negotiate as they decided which way the train tracks would go!
ReplyDelete