﻿Hello, everybody. My name's Emma. I'm really looking forward to today's session and I hope you are too. But before we get started, just a quick reminder, we here at Oak are trying to support any approaches you might already be using, and any work that you might have already been set. We know this lesson is going out to so many different children and families. So if you're not sure or have questions, then please contact your usual speech and language therapy team, or your child's school. In today's session, we're going to be talking about why listening is so important. We're also going to be listening to some sounds, and we're going to think about them. Then I'm going to be sharing some more ideas for how you can work on listening at home. For today's session, all you will need children is some of your favourite music, a pot or a pan, and a wooden spoon. Adults you'll need the downloadable resource available with this lesson on the Oak website. So before we begin, find a quiet place where you won't be disturbed for the lesson. Turn off any distractions including any notifications, or conversations that you have running on your device that you're using to access this lesson. And make sure that you're both seated comfortably. When you're ready, let's begin. Let's start by talking and thinking about how we listen to sounds. Children need to learn to listen in order to gain information from the world around them. A listening attitude is crucial in communication. We need to be able to focus on the right information and process out other sounds when we're listening. We need to process out other sounds so that we're not distracted by them. We need to be aware of what we can see and hear in order to be able to make sense of language and the world around us. Now, it's time to listen to some of your music at home. Pause the video, to find some of your favourite music that you'd like to listen to. Now, you've got your music ready. I'd like you to listen to some of it. While you're listening to it, have a think with your adult, how does the music sound? You could use the symbols on this page to talk about the music and make some comments about it. Now, let's have a go moving our bodies to the music. Listen carefully. Can you change how you move your body with the music? If it's fast music, you might want to try moving your body fast. If it's quiet music, you might want to try some small movements. You and your adult can do this together. Now, it's time for another musical game. We're going to play the game musical statues. You have to move your body to the music and listen very carefully. When the music stops, your body has to stay still. You have to stop moving when the music stops. Adults, you'll need to control the music, but play along too. Once you've had five minutes having a go at musical statues, come back to the video to press play and we'll continue. Welcome back. I hope you enjoyed musical statues. It's one of my favourite games. You can do more listening at home by playing hide and seek sound games. This is where you hide an object, a clock, for example, or something that makes a continuous sound, and you go on a hunt for it. Can you find it together? You could also take it in turns to be the person that hides the object. Now, we're going to have another musical activity. We're going to make musical instruments out of everyday objects. You and your adult are going to make music together. You need to listen for when your adult says stop and go. You could also be in charge of saying stop and go too. I wonder if you and your adult can copy each other's rhythm when you're making music. Can you make the same sounds together? When you've had to go paying stop and go and copy each other, come back to the video and we'll finish up for today's lesson. Adults, don't forget to continue to use the downloadable resource to help you plan more listening activities into your everyday with the child. You can use the resources to record and reflect on how your child listens and responds to sounds around them. All that's left for me to say is a really big well done on all the fantastic listening you've done today. I've got two things I'd like you to do. First adults, look back at your notes and identify some important things that you've learned today. Children, if you're able to please take a picture of your listening games and record this in your listening diary in the resources attached. Ask your parent or carer to share this with your teacher at school so that they can see the fantastic progress that you're making with your listening and attention. If you'd like, you could also ask your parent or carer to send a picture of your listening diary to @OakNational on Twitter so I can see your wonderful progress too. Well, all that's left for me to say is thank you. But take care and enjoy the rest of your learning for today. Bye-bye.

Develop the skills for starting and finishing a task

In this lesson, we will develop the skills for starting and finishing a task. Resources provided by University of Gloucestershire (CC BY-NC-SA: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0)

Lesson overview:Listening to sounds

Core Content

Equipment Required

Attention and listening: