Day 8 of #30dayswild Listening walks!
Listening walks are a wonderful free activity that you can do with children of any age, anytime, anywhere. You can do it at the park or your local woodlands, walking to the shops or school or even in your own garden.
A listening walk gives children the opportunity to listen carefully to their environment and talk about what they can hear, this can be the name of the things they can hear or for those with developed verbal skills a description of what they can hear.
Here is a lovely little page from talking points to explain listening walks and give you some variations on listening walks:
Listening walks give a great opportunity for literacy as well as communication and language. You can use tick sheets and go on a listening scavenger hunt and mark off the sounds you hear on your walk.
Teach Preschool has a picture checklist for listening walks:
And here is a written check list for children who are able to read:
Love Early Education,
Love, Kylie x
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