Listening WalkUsing your ears can you go on a listening walk?

Get a grown up to write down everything you can hear.

Listen carefully.

Can you hear…A clock. Is it tick tocking?

The wind. Is it saying ‘whoooooo’?A car. Is it saying vroom?

A bird. Is it saying ‘tweet, tweet, tweet’?A dog. Is it barking?

Put on your listening ears and off you go! Maybe you could take a bag to collect them in!

Kitchen drummingDecorate a wooden spoon!Then it’s time to get noisy!!

Using your wooden spoon and the pots and pans in the kitchen can you explore the sounds that they make!

Can you make loud sounds and quiet sounds. Soft sounds or hard sounds?

Can you make a pattern or a rhythm using one or two spoons?

Are the sounds the same or different if you use a big pan or a small pan?What happens if you take your spoon outside?

Can you make sounds on a fence, a wall, climbing frame or path?

Parent note

My Listening Ears

Look, listen and note how well your child:

recalls sounds they have heard; discriminates between the sounds; describes the sounds they hear

Teddy is lost!OH no Teddy has got lost! Can you guide someone to find him!

Take it in turns to hide a teddy somewhere in the room. Then invite your child/ adult to find him

As they get nearer to where Teddy is hiding can you sing Twinkle ,Twinkle loudly!

If they are not near sing Twinkle, twinkle quietly until they find him!!

Once he is found it’s time to swop over!!

(It doesn’t have to be Twinkle, Twinkle!! It can be a rhyme that you like or enjoy at home!)

Describe it, find it Set up a play farm /zoo with some field and animals. Then take it in turns to describe one of the animals.

Number of legs, colour, tail, mane, ears…. ‘’It has four legs, a tail and horns.’’

Invite your child to find it!Once found can they tell you the sound it makes?

‘’MOO!’’

Encourage your child to describe an animal to you.

Parent note

Look, listen and note how well does your child:

describe what they see; identify the animals and imitate the sounds; add new words to their vocabulary.

Voice soundsTuning into Sounds

With your child can you explore different mouth movements like – blowing, sucking, tongue stretching and wiggling.

Show children how they can make sounds with their voices, for example:

Make your voice go down a slide – wheeee!

Make your voice bounce like a ball – boing, boing

Sound really disappointed –oh

Hiss like a snake – sssssss

Keep everyone quiet – shhhh

Look astonished – ooooo!

*buzz like a bumble bee – zzzzz

*be a clock – tick tock

*gently moo like a cow - mmmoooo

Use hand movements to support these sounds

ChallengeWhilst listening to some music instead of dancing can you make your tongue do the dancing! This is great fun in the

car when you can’t dance! Have fun exploring mouth shapes and sounds!

Parent Note

Look, listen and note how well your child:

Distinguishes between the differences in vocal sounds

Voice soundsTuning into Sounds

You will need 5 or more objects/ toys/pictures

Bag/box/ tray with tea towel to cover

For example

Cat, dog, mug, sock, shoe, ball, cow, sheep, hen,

As you place them onto the table sound out the toy/picture/object

C / a / t catD / o / g dog

Sh / oo (oe) shoeM / u / g mugB / all ballS / o / ck sock

Once they are all on the table begin by sounding out an object and encourage your child to listen carefully and select the correct object.

Top tip- Sound out the object quickly using soft sounds

Please don’t add an ‘uh’ to the sounds as this makes the blending much harder for your child to hear it’s

c – a - t not cuh/ a / tuh.

PICTURE CARDS

Rhyming pairsWe have been working on rhyming words!

We listen carefully to hear which words rhyme can you spot them!

Cut up the cards and show you child each picture naming each one.

Place face up and take it in turns to select a card and say the picture Can we find the matching rhyming picture

Hen penCat hatDog log

Moon spoon

Have fun saying the words and perhaps you can add some more rhyming words. They can be nonsense!

Hen, pen, ten, Glen, zen, gren, flen…

Cat, hat, fat, drat, mat,

Have fun!

Parent note

Look, listen and note how well does your child:

Can your child listen for and say rhyming words

I spy with my little rhyming eye

As we are developing our rhyming word skills we are sending home simple game for you to play.Can you play a game of rhyming I spy.

I spy with my little eye.Something that rhymes with

hat....catChair...stair

Jar...car Spoon...moon

Bed...ted

Take it in turns! Another great game to play in the car!

Parent note

Look, listen and note how well your child:

 Sings or chants the rhyming string along with the adult

 Recognises that the words rhyme

Alliteration sentences

We have been having fun with silly sentences.

The all the words in the sentences all have to start with the same sound

Play game of silly sentences :Mummy what are you doing? Mummy’s mashing mountains

Sally, what are you doing? Sally’s sitting in saucepans

William, what are you doing?

William whistles when washing wellingtons

Daddy, what are you doing?

Daddy drops dinner

Play together supporting your children ideas!

Parent noteLook, listen note can you child

 Identify initial sounds of words

 Reproduce the initial sounds clearly and recognisably

Make up their own alliterative sentences (couple of words)

Alliteration Bath TimeYou will need:Bubble bath

Cup or a sieve

Sets of objects that start with same sound, for exampleSoap sponge shampooFace cloth, frog, fish

Plastic toys from you box – cow cat cup carPot, pen, paintbrush

Hide objects beginning with the same sound in a bubbly bath for the child to find, they may enjoy fishing them out with a sieve or a cup.

Encourage your child to name the objects as they are found e.g. flannel, frog, fish – soap, sponge, spoon, shark, shampoo, ship

Parent noteLook, listen note

 Identify initial sounds of words

 Reproduce the initial sounds clearly and recognisably

Match alliterative objects

Silly SoupWe love to make some silly soup and love to say this rhyme.

You will needBowl/ saucepan.

Wooden spoon (perhaps the decorated one from earlier challenges)

Rhyming toy animals/objects/picture cards

Use a bowl and spoon as props to act out the song.Invite your child in turn to choose an object to put into the soup and place it

in the bowl.After each turn stir the soup and sing the following song.

The last line of the song increases in length each time the song is sung.As the list of rhyming objects in the bowl increases, reinforce vocabulary

‘Rhyme’. Sing song between each choice.

Sing the first part of the song to the tune of “Pop Goes the Weasel”:

I’m making lots of silly soupI’m making soup that’s silly

I’m going to cook it in the fridgeTo make it nice and chilly

In goes… a hat…a bat…a fat cat…a mat… and a rat!

Parent note

Look, listen and note how well children:

 Can recall the list of objects beginning with the same sound

 Discriminate between the sounds and match to the objects correctly

cat rat mat rat bat hat pen hen ten men

New words to old songsYou will need

BottleStickers

Rice/ lentils/ pasta

Can you sing with your child “Twinkle, twinkle little star”, with actions.

Next can you hum the tune and do the actions!

Make a shaker to play along with your singing!

Can you sing song again but this time can you shake your shaker as you sing or hum!

Finally its time to change words to“Shake your shaker in the air,

Shake your shaker everywhere,Shake it high and shake it low,Shake it everywhere you go,Shake your shaker in the air,

Shake your shaker everywhere.”

Then change words and actions by

swishing shaker- sing quietly. Tip your shaker

Bounce Flip….

Have fun

Parent noteLook, listen note

Listen and respond as the instrument is being played