Sound

Objectives:

The student will appreciate the need for quiet when important information is to be heard.

The student will complete the sound chart categorizing pleasant and unpleasant sounds.

The student will be able to work cooperatively to produce a Big Book.

Motivating Activities

Listening Game
Students listen to prerecorded tape of various sounds (i.e. different animal sounds, crying, laughing, bell, telephone, sneezing, piano, drum, running, motorcycle, dishes breaking) and as a class try to identify each sound.
Play the Sound Game
Children place their heads down on their desk with their eyes closed. One child is chosen to hide out of sight but within hearing range. Now the other children can open their eyes. The chosen child is directed to make any sound (i.e. clapping, snapping fingers, stomping feet) and the rest of the class must through hearing it only duplicate the same sound with the same sequence.
Play Telephone
Students sit in a circle and the teacher whispers a word to a child. That child then whispers to the child next to him/ her until the last child in the circle has heard the word. The last child says the word out loud and it is compared to the original word. Is it the same?
KEY WORDS: Lead to a class discussion on - ears, hearing, sound, deaf, sign language, loud, and quiet.
Sample Question: Would our game of telephone be easy to play if there was loud music playing in the background? (No, I couldn't hear very good).

Activities

Whole Group

There are many picture books readily available in school or public libraries. The following is the one I selected. However, you may find one that you are more comfortable with.

Read the book, Beginning to Learn About Hearing, by Richard L. Allington, and Kathleen Cowles, Illustrated by Wayne Dober, Raintree Childrens Books, 1980.
This is a colorful, 32 paged picture book that is part of a series which has several activities based on the material presented. The book introduces many different sounds associated with different animals, foods and people.

Create Sound Word Web example

Develop Word Wall example


Small Group/Center

 

In pairs draw a picture or use words from the word wall to complete the table.
Sounds I like Sounds I don't like
   
   
   
   

Listening Center is set up in order that students can record their own voices – talking or singing a song. Once the entire class has contributed his or her part on the tape, the entire class listens and identifies each person’s segment.

 

Play "Talking Hands"
Teacher explains the game to the class that they must follow her directions by watching her "talking hands". The teacher's hands will indicate what the children must do. For example, to get children to stand the teacher would raise both hands palms upward in a sweeping gesture.

Assessment
My students write daily in a journal.
In their writing journals the students respond to the questions:

What part of the body to you use to hear?
If you can’t hear what is another way to understand people?