Listening to animal noises will deepen children's knowledge of the animal world and improve their listening skills.
Listen with the children to high-quality recordings of animal noises so that they can hear accurately the different sounds. Include a wide variety of animals, such as farm animals, birds and rainforest and African animals.
Listen to the sounds in a quiet area and encourage the children to concentrate. Many children are slow to develop listening skills and struggle particularly when there is a lot of extraneous noise.
Encourage the children to imitate the sounds that they hear and try imitating the noises yourself. When you tell a story or sing a song with animals in it, try to imitate the true sound of the animal. Many books and songs use terms such as 'bow wow' and 'cock-a-doodle-do', which are lovely descriptive words but fail to accurately describe the sounds.
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