Preschool GHI Series: Hearing and Helping

Hearing and Helping, with a rain forest theme, includes practice in hearing initial consonant sounds and rhyming words; understanding words in sentence context, as well as following instructions. Exercises also include examples of families and children helping others.

Teaching Aims:

• Practice neatness and carefulness in use and care of books
• Follow directions such as coloring, tracing, writing, drawing, counting, matching, cutting, and pasting
• Practice use of basic colors, shapes, and numbers
• Hear words that are similar or opposite. Hear initial sounds: /ch/, /p/, /g/, /m/, /c/, /d/
• Hear rhyming sounds
• Hear and follow simple directions
• Hear and understand sentence meanings
• Appreciate helpfulness of families and friends
• Learn the joy of being a helper to our family and friends
  
• Learn about warm, wet rain forests in tropical lands
• Many animals, birds, and insects live in rain forests
• Harpy eagles, jaguars, macaws, new world monkeys, quetzals, sloths, and toucans live in Central and South America
• Chimpanzees and hippopotamuses live in Africa
• Peacocks and tigers live in Asia
• Hornbills live in Africa and Asia