Pamela J. Tonge
(suggested lessons and integrated activities)
*students will define sound on their own and list several objects that makes sounds.
*students will use their imagination and imitate sounds for objects.
*students will list the sound words for the object.
*students will define what they think Onomatopoeia may mean.
*students will read sound words with related object.
*students will be musically inclined and sing songs with sounds words in them.
*students will listen to indoor and outdoor sounds.
*student will create sentences using sound words.
*students will create Onomatopoeia poetry.
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*students will share and read their poems to classmates.
*students will listen to Onomatopoeia poetry read from books by the teacher.
*students will integrate their poems using musical sounds with assistance from the music teacher.
*students will listen to music teacher play musical instruments for individual and varied sounds.
*students will make musical instruments.
*students will perform a mini “sound” concert using their instruments.
*students will view Walt Disney’s “Fantasia”
*students will listen to the sounds of nature on CD’s, and cassette tapes.
*students will see the performance of a symphony orchestra, either live or on videotape.
*students will measure the level of sound with a Digital Sound Level Meter (Science and Math)
*students will become familiar with mathematical terms to measure sound.
*students will construct musical instruments using proper measurement.
*through science instruction, students will become familiar with the vocal organs, the vocal chords and the vocal tract, which enables us to hear, be heard and produce speech sounds.
*students will demonstrate the various positions of the vocal organs.
