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Animal Sounds Lesson Plans
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Learners listen to books about animals. In this animal sound and characteristics lesson, learners listen to books and a tape of animal and then identify which animal makes that sound. Learners discuss and act out how the animal acts.
Learners explore animal sounds. In this animal and vocabulary development lesson, learners listen to the story Mice Squeak, We Speak, then produce the proper animal noise when given the name of an animal. Learners sing "Old MacDonald" and play an animal sound game.
In this lesson students learn animal sounds and rhyming words. In this animal words and rhyming words lesson, students listen to the big book, Cow in the Kitchen, and talk about the story and the ending sounds of rhyming words. They draw pictures of animals on a chart and write rhyming words on the illustration.
1st graders participate in a rhyming awareness activity, differentiate between a variety of animal sounds, and identify the rhyming words in a poem. Using a mirror they view how their mouths function while saying words that rhyme, develop a list of animals and identify the sounds, and cut out magazine pictures of animals. 1st graders then listen to the poem "Time to Rise" by Robert Louis Stevenson and identify the words that rhyme.
Students examine what happens when they make sounds by looking in the mirror and feeling the vibrations of their throats. They listen for rhymes and look at what happens to their faces as the teacher reads rhyming words that they repeat. In the next section, they identify animal sounds. When working with the Robert Louis Stevenson poem, Time to Rise, the students listen for rhyming words and focus on new vocabulary.
Students listen to tapes of animal sounds while they hold up a puppet of the correct animal. They perform different sounds to their classmates in which they have a chance to guess. Using a Venn Diagram, they compare and contrast the sounds the animals make in Spanish and English.
Learners listen to animal sounds and decide what animal makes that particular noise. In this animal science lesson, learners imitate the particular animals by recreating the sounds and movements that would be made by the animals.
Learners make an instrument. In this insect sounds lesson, learners read The Very Quiet Cricket and imitate some of the animal sounds. Learners discuss what instruments these sounds remind them of. Learners make pan flutes.
In this lesson learners explore farm animal sounds. They sing a song that introduces them to the sounds of farm animals. In this lesson learners create animal bingo cards to help them recognize the correct sounds for each of the farm animals. They discuss the types of sounds farm animals make.
Students become familiar with various animal sounds. In this Safari sound book lesson, students read and identify animals and listen to their sounds. After reading a few times, the animal sound is played and the students try to recognize which animal it is.
