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Animal Sounds Game
Vivienne Cato
Vivienne@speaktoearth.free-online.co.u

Source: Speak to Earth

Animal Sounds Game At-a-Glance

Brief Summary:

Developing a sense of the diversity within the animal kingdom and identifying with Adam's role in naming the animals.

Audience:

Ages 5-7
Ages 8-10

Facility:

Community Center
Religious/Day School
Other

Program Type:

Educational Program

Issues:

Tzaar Baalei Chayim/Biodiversity/Endangered Species

Description

Play the sound effects tape and ask the children to identify the noises.
Tell or remind the children that in the Bible story Adam was asked to give names to all the animals (Genesis 2:19-20). Using picture prompts, children in pairs devise - like Adam -descriptive names for animals of their choice.
Each pair presents their names to the class, who guess the animal's identity.
Read to the class 'Adam's Animals' from 'Does God Have a Big Toe?' - an amusing Midrash on the biblical story.

Materials Needed

Sound effects tape of animal noises.
Pictures of animals
'Does God Have a Big Toe?' by Marc Gellman

Benchmarks

Aural discrimination, Creative thinking, Speaking and listening, literacy

Preparation Time

10 minutes (if tape does not have to be custom-made)

Activity Time

40 minutes

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This program added on 2003-04-22.

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