The Sense of Sound - اَلسَّمَعُ
I hear... - ... أَنَا أَسْمَعُ
I put the next pair of Arabic vocabulary on the whiteboard and the girls practised reading and repeating the words. We played a quick game: I would say a sentence in Arabic e.g. "I hear a cow", "I hear a car", etc. and the girls needed to repeat after me then make the appropriate noise/action.
We recapped the sense we looked at previously, i.e. sight, and reminded ourselves of the body part associated with hearing, i.e. ears - using both English and Arabic.
The girls closed their eyes so they couldn't use their sense of sight to help, then they had to guess which object I was using to make a noise, e.g. scrunching a packet of crisps, scissors snipping, tapping the wooden table, turning the tap on, clinking two glasses together, flicking through the pages of a book, etc.
We repeated the activity from before, making a mini obstacle course in the front room, except this time one girl was blindfolded and the other had to give directions to guide her to other side (this was also me sneakily checking on their Numeracy targets and being able to use the language of position/direction/movement 😏).
After reading about echo location and bats, we played a similar game (could do this in the garden next time if the weather's better, insha'Allah!) whereby the girls were blindfolded pretending to be bats and they needed to follow my voice to catch me. Afterwards, we talked about how fast they moved while blindfolded - fast or slow - and why that was - so they were less likely to fall over! - and then watched some videos of animals on YouTube which have poor eyesight and discussed whether they moved quickly or not. Why were they able to move so fast? SubhanAllah, because Allah created them that way, i.e. with super-hearing.
Finally, I asked them if they had a favourite sound/sounds and what it would be like if they couldn't hear anymore. We talked about how some people are born without being able to hear, or they might lose their hearing later on in life e.g. through an accident or an illness, and these people are known as 'deaf'. Alhamdulillah, we've been blessed with the sense of sound - to enjoy the world and also to keep us safe. How can being able to hear keep us safe? e.g. when crossing the road, hearing someone shout a warning if something dangerous is about to happen... So how do deaf people communicate if they can't hear what's being said? Many of them are very good at lipreading (we had a go at this with me emphasising the shapes of words slowly and them having to guess what I was saying) and they also have a special language called sign language! They were familiar with this already from watching Mr Tumble on CBeebies. 😂Then we played a simple game of charades taking it in turns to act out animals for each other to guess - then compared it to making the animal's sound and talking about which was easier!
We recapped the sense we looked at previously, i.e. sight, and reminded ourselves of the body part associated with hearing, i.e. ears - using both English and Arabic.
The girls closed their eyes so they couldn't use their sense of sight to help, then they had to guess which object I was using to make a noise, e.g. scrunching a packet of crisps, scissors snipping, tapping the wooden table, turning the tap on, clinking two glasses together, flicking through the pages of a book, etc.
We repeated the activity from before, making a mini obstacle course in the front room, except this time one girl was blindfolded and the other had to give directions to guide her to other side (this was also me sneakily checking on their Numeracy targets and being able to use the language of position/direction/movement 😏).
After reading about echo location and bats, we played a similar game (could do this in the garden next time if the weather's better, insha'Allah!) whereby the girls were blindfolded pretending to be bats and they needed to follow my voice to catch me. Afterwards, we talked about how fast they moved while blindfolded - fast or slow - and why that was - so they were less likely to fall over! - and then watched some videos of animals on YouTube which have poor eyesight and discussed whether they moved quickly or not. Why were they able to move so fast? SubhanAllah, because Allah created them that way, i.e. with super-hearing.
Finally, I asked them if they had a favourite sound/sounds and what it would be like if they couldn't hear anymore. We talked about how some people are born without being able to hear, or they might lose their hearing later on in life e.g. through an accident or an illness, and these people are known as 'deaf'. Alhamdulillah, we've been blessed with the sense of sound - to enjoy the world and also to keep us safe. How can being able to hear keep us safe? e.g. when crossing the road, hearing someone shout a warning if something dangerous is about to happen... So how do deaf people communicate if they can't hear what's being said? Many of them are very good at lipreading (we had a go at this with me emphasising the shapes of words slowly and them having to guess what I was saying) and they also have a special language called sign language! They were familiar with this already from watching Mr Tumble on CBeebies. 😂Then we played a simple game of charades taking it in turns to act out animals for each other to guess - then compared it to making the animal's sound and talking about which was easier!
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