How Many Sounds?-Adapted from Pica, Rae. (2007). Moving and learning through curriculum. Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning.
Materials
- A sheet of 8 1/2" by 11" paper
- Tell the students that you are going to pass around a sheet of paper and you want each of them to create a different sound with it (i.e. crumpling, tearing, flicking it with a finger, folding, unfolding)
- Record the sounds that the students make with the paper.
- After the sound making activity, play the sounds back to the students and have them write or draw their depictions of the sounds that they heard. Were the sounds loud or quiet? Were they hard or soft? What did the sounds remind them of?
- Go on a "listening walk." Ask the students to identify and share all of the different sounds that they hear (i.e. footsteps, cars, birds) and challenge them to depict the actions of some of the creatures and objects that they heard
- The students could also draw or write what they heard
- GLO 1.1 - Discover and Explore
- Experiment with language and forms
- Express ideas and develop understanding
- GLO 3.1 - Plan and Focus
- Plan to gather information
- Focus attention
- GLO 3.4 - Share and Review
- Share ideas and information