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.