EXPLORING THE SENSE OF 👂

Hi!! I looked for some activities that you can use to explore the sense of hearing. I hope they can be useful and fun 😊

Activities:

• Let the kids play with a tape recorder. Record each child talking. Play the tapes later and let the kids guess who it is. You can also record cartoon characters speaking and see if the children can guess who the character is.

• Have the kids pretend to be robots. The robots must follow directions. Tell the kids the robot code. One beep means move your arm, two beeps means jump, and so on. Make up directions for the robots to follow.

• Let the kids make music with musical jars. Collect about five jars or glasses. Fill each of the jars with a different amount of water. Using a metal spoon, let the kids tap on the jars to make music.

• Teach the kids about loud sounds versus soft sounds. Play music very loud and then very soft. Give the kids instruments and have them play loudly and then quietly.

• Let the kids play with seashells . Show them how to put the seashell to their ears to hear the ocean. Get bubble wrap and cover a section of the floor with it. Let the kids walk on it to make lots of noise.

• Matching game. Fill eggs with beans, coins, marbles, corn, rice, soil, pasta, etc. The boys shook the eggs and paired them by sound. After matching each pair they guessed the contents of the eggs.

These are some ideas that you can adapt to your class 😉

REFERENCES

https://wehavekids.com/parenting/5-senses-activities

http://www.learnplayimagine.com/2012/10/3-ways-to-explore-sense-of-hearing.html

https://playtolearnpreschool.us/sound-matching-game/

THE MUSIC IN PRESCHOOL

Hello everyone!!! Today I want to share some useful information about the use of music  in classroom. You'll discovered why it is important the use of this tool.

Many teachers know that songs are fun and can engage young English learners, and understanding more deeply the benefits for child development and learning could help them use songs more effectively. Music and song can do the following:

• Provide authentic, meaningful context: Using songs bring authentic language. The new language becomes more comprehensible, memorable and useful.

• Introduce children to the target culture: perhaps the first exposure to the existence and richness of a culture.

• Create enjoyable classroom atmosphere: students lower their anxiety.

• Provide opportunities to practice oral language: the melody and rhythm are useful for improving students’ pronunciation and intonation.

•  Aid in retention and comprehension: the rhythm and repetition in songs help learners retain new language.

• Enhance literacy instructions: They are effective for developing phonemic awareness.

Furthermore, children are able to retain much larger amounts of information through the use of songs. Researcher asserts that a child can imitate the rhythm and musical contours of the language long before he can say the words, and caretakers of young children will agree. Musical aspects of language, tone, pauses, stress, and timbre are sonorous units into which phonemes, the consonant and vowel sounds of language, are later placed .

There are many songs that you can use, one of the favorite songs last year was "Baby Shark". So, I share the video. Enjoy it 😁

After you have read it and watched the video, please comment about what the children can learn or develop with this song.