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Listening : discrimination between sounds
- Collect together two containers, a cardboard box and a metal tin, and some marbles. Show your child how to drop marbles into the tin and the box, pointing out the difference in noise as the marble hits the card or the metal. When you child has dropped a marble into one of the
- containers encourage him to show you which one it was by pointing to it. Make this game more difficult for your child by asking him to shut his eyes and listen carefully while you drop a marble into the box or tin. Ask your child to open his eyes and tell you where the marble is (make sure they cannot cheat by looking into the box).
- Collect together six identical plastic pots with lids. You may be able to use margarine tubs or yoghurt cartons with paper lids. Make two sets of shakers by filling each pair of containers with something that will make very different noises, e.g. fill two with rice, two with corks, two with screwed up paper. Muddle up the shakers. Encourage your child to find the matching pair by listening to the noise each makes. As your child gets better at this you can increase the number of pots used and fill them with things that make similar noises.
- Collect toys that make different noises. Put them into a large container so that when you make a noise with one of the toys ,your child is unable to see which one it was. Encourage your child to find the toy that made the sound.
- Collect four bottles and fill them with varying amounts of water. Tap them with a stick or pencil. See if your child can pick the highest note and then the lowest. Ask your child to close their eyes while you tap one of the bottles. See if they can find which bottle made the sound
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