The Look and Listen Floor Puzzle range includes:
- Look & Listen On the Farm
- Look & Listen Transport
- Look &Listen At the Zoo
- Look & Listen Band
- Look & Listen Nursery Rhymes
- Look & Listen Honey Bear Home
Each puzzle set contains a CD with the sounds. (In some cases the puzzle may have a cassette tape, in which case a CD of the sounds may be purchased separately. Check each product's description.)
Each Look & Listen puzzle has between 24 and 35 pieces and the completed size is 62.5 cm x 45 cm.
Activities:
These tracks are arrange to 'read' from left to right and from top to bottom. Encourange children to do this in the reading activities.
How to use the puzzle with the audio CD:
- Children assemble the puzzle and
- listen to all the tracks on the CD
- point to the relevant picture when they hear the sound
- Children remove the inset pieces from the puzzle and place them on a table in random order. They
- listen to the CD
- find the insert pieces that contain the animal/vehicle/instrument etc that makes the sound and places them in the correct frames
- Children identify the animals or vehicles
- Ask them to name the animal/vehicle/instrument etc and also to imitate the sound it makes. Ask them questions based on various facts found in the instruction pamphlet (eg What does the animal eat? When is a fire engine used? What is a baby lion called? What is a group of hippo called? Where would you look for a hammer? etc)
Specific skills developed:
- Auditory Awareness: An awareness of different sounds made by eg animals, vehicles, musical instruments
- Auditory Closure: The ability to hear to the end of an instruction, word, rhyme, song
- Auditory Discrimination: The ability to discriminate between different sounds of animals or vehicles or instruments
- Auditory Memory and Recall: The ability to remember what was heard and to recall it at a later stage
- Fine Motor Co-ordination: The co-ordinated movements of the small muscles and joints of the body, eg fingers, wrists and hands
- Visual Figure-Ground Perception: The ability to focus attention on a particular item, placing it in the foreground, while allowing everything else to fade into the background.
- Intellectual Development: The ability to form concepts, to understand, to judge, to solve problems, to make decisions, to reason and to recognise
- Social Play: When children interact with each other learning to play together, take turns and follow simple rules
- Vocabulary and Knowledge base. The vocabulary that children use and their 'knowledge base' that they refer to while telling or talking
Sounds in each puzzle:
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Horse - neighs
Dog - barks
Bee - buzzes
Sheep - bleats
Owl - hoots
Pig - grunts; squeals
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Cow - moos
Frog - croaks
Rooster - crows
Duck - quacks
Hen - clucks
Tractor - engine sound
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Jet
Helicopter
Truck
Train
Donkey Cart
Ambulance
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Car smash/crash
Ice Cream Vendor
Fire Engine
Motorbike
Tugboat
Motor car
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Track 1: Monkey - chatters
Track 2: Bees - buzz, hum
Track 3: Parrot - talks
Track 4: Goat - bleats
Track 5: Peacock - screams
Track 8: Lion - roars
Track 9: Owl - hoots
Track 10: Gorilla - roars, grunts
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Track 11: Elephant - trumpets
Track 12: Wolf - howls
Track 13: Seal - barks
Track 14: Dolphin - clicks
Track 15: Frog - croaks
Track 16: Hippo - brays
Track 17: Flamingo - honks
Track 18: Bear - growls
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Saxophone
Double Bass
Flute
Piano
Trumpet
Electronic Keyboard
Violin
Drums
Singer
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Track 1: Polly put the kettle on
Track 2: Tom, Tom the Piper's son
Track 3: Baa baa black sheep
Track 4: Humpty Dumpty
Track 5: Hickory Dickory Dock
Track 6: Mary had a little lamb |
Track 7: Sing a Song of Sixpence
Track 8: Goosy Goosy Gander
Track 9: Ride a Cock Horse
Track 10: Three Blind Mice
Track 11: Jack and Jill
Track 12: See Saw Marjory Door
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Squirrels
Cat
Birds
Hammering
Toilet flushing
Baby gurgling
Vacuum cleaner |
Dog barking
Piano
Telephone ringing
Grandfather clock chiming
Doorbell
Party sounds
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