“People Who Help Us: Vets” is designed to nurture early phonological awareness through imaginative, vet-themed learning experiences. This week’s activities help children develop skills such as animal sound recognition, body percussion, initial sound identification, rhyming, and voice modulation—all within the context of a vet’s clinic and the animals they care for.
Large Group Sessions Include:
- Name That Animal!
Children identify and produce words beginning with the same initial sound, developing their awareness of how sounds relate to vocabulary. - Copy Vet
A playful body percussion activity where children mimic rhythmic sound patterns, encouraging listening, coordination, and sequencing. - The Vet Says…
An expressive voice-based game where children explore how sounds can carry different meanings, helping them adjust volume, pitch, and tone to reflect animal emotions. - Whose Pet Is This?
An engaging rhyming activity where children match animals to rhyming clues and use visual cues to build word families.
Small Group Sessions Feature Focused Practice:
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What’s That Animal Sound?
Children listen to and recall various animal sounds (e.g., bleating, neighing, squawking), building auditory discrimination skills. -
Night-Time at the Vet’s
Children explore everyday materials (paper, bottles, etc.) to create animal-like sounds, deepening their understanding of sound-making through play. -
Voice of the Vet’s Pet
Using their own voice, children imitate different animal sounds and experiment with volume, pitch, and rhythm. -
Alliteration with Playful Pets
Children identify and recite alliterative phrases like “funny fox” or “happy hamster,” building sound-play and early word awareness. - Rhyming with Pets
Supported by the teacher, children find rhyming words in a fun, pet-themed context, laying the groundwork for future reading fluency.
What Children Will Learn:
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To identify, imitate, and respond to animal and voice sounds
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To recognize initial sounds and alliterative words
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To match rhyming words through visual and verbal play
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To explore sounds using objects and body percussion
- To express ideas through movement and vocal expression
Age Group: 3–6 years
Theme: People Who Help Us – Vets
Focus Areas:
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Listening & Attention
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Sound Discrimination
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Rhyming & Alliteration
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Voice Exploration
- Early Communication Skills
This pack is part of the “People Who Help Us” phonics series, perfect for Islamic preschools and early years classrooms. All activities are Muslim-friendly, incorporating recitation, body movements, and real-world sound exploration—no music or dance.
Ready-to-use, engaging, and deeply educational—Week 11 is a must-have for any phonics curriculum!
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