What Do You Hear?

 Transition Song: H-E-A-R-T by the Kiboomers

Vocabulary and Basic Concepts: What/Where/Who, various animals, various vehicles, various weather, various household items, loud/quiet, listening ears, looking eyes, quiet mouths, environmental sounds such as animals and vehicles.

This week, we played a game where we had to guess the sound.  We had to use listening ears, looking eyes, and quiet mouths in order for everyone to hear the sound?  Some were easy to guess (cat, dog, cow, thunder, train).  Some were hard to guess (volcano, zebra, peacock, frog, plane).  After we guessed, Miss Carrie would show the picture on the iPad so we could see if we guessed right.  We talked about What is was, Where could we find it (farm, zoo, jungle, ocean, road, sky, water) and if anyone had such as thing at their house.  Was it loud or quiet?

Miss Carrie used the Soundtouch 1 and Soundtouch 2 apps.  There were lots of different pictures to see.

(*NOTE: this was another favorite activity. )

(These are just some of the screenshots from the Soundtouch app.  Each picture, when touched, plays a variety of sounds and shows a photograph corresponding to each sound.)

DO THIS AT HOME:  Go for a walk and listen for sounds.  What do you hear?  Where is it coming from?  Did you find an animal?  A vehicle?  A construction site?  This is easy to play anywhere.

The H Hunt

 Transition Song: H-E-A-R-T by the Kiboomers.

Vocabulary and Basic Concepts: Hunt, heart, hammer, hair, helmet, hotdog, hamburger, house, hammock, horseshoe crab, harmonica, honey, helicopter, hat, hippo, hanger, horse, hand, help, find it/can't find it.

This week, we noticed pictures all over the room.  We had to wait for Large Group time to find out more about them. We were having an H hunt.  First we practiced our /h/ sound.  Then Miss Carrie showed us that she had a stack of pictures that matched the pictures around the room.  We could take one picture, find the match, and then bring back the picture to trade for another picture. If we couldn't find the picture, we could ask a friend for help.  Each time we traded for a new picture, Miss Carrie would ask "What did you find?"

After the Hunt, some of our friends said they had never seen a horseshoe crab.  We watched and talked about a video of horseshoe crabs.

Some of our friends didn't know what a harmonica was, so we also watched a video of a boy playing a harmonica.  We talked about how he had to blow into the harmonica as well as move the harmonica to make different sounds.

DO THIS AT HOME:  pick a sound or a color and go on a walk or hunt around your house.  How many things can you find that start with that sound or are that color?  Talk about what you find together.

Hiding Phil and Hiding Preschoolers

Transition Song: H-E-A-R-T by The Kiboomers

Sing twice, don't skip any letters, clapping on all of the letters.

Vocabulary and Basic Concepts: Who/What/Where questions, He/She/They, on top/under, in front/behind, next to, table, chair, screen, coats, blankets, elephant, see-saw, dog, doghouse, leaves, bus, hello/goodbye.

This week, Miss Carrie read the book Hiding Phil by Eric Barclay. 

The children find an elephant.  But what if Mom and Dad won't let him stay?  We had so much fun reading about Phil the elephant, talking about where he was hiding, who was with him, and what they were doing.

We decided to play hide and seek.  When Miss Carrie found us, she took our picture.  Then we looked for our picture on the big screen while we talked about Who it was and Where they were hiding.  Everyone wanted to play this game again and again.

DO THIS AT HOME:  Pull out your phone or camera and play hide and seek as a family.  Take pictures of where you find them.  Then get together over your favorite family treat (ice cream! No?  Just me?) and look at the pictures together.  Talk about who, what, where, he, she, under, behind, next to, on top, in front of.  You will be asked to play this again and again.