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Teaching Ideas for Using Who is at the zoo? - Animal Bingo
Match the animal sounds to the pictures
Phonics Learning Opportunities
To develop children's listening skills.
To develop the ability to imitate sounds with the voice.
Organisation
Whole class, small group or 1:1.
Once children are familiar with the game, they could play it independently.
Teaching ideas
Choose to either Meet the Animals or Guess the Animals.
Meet the animals
Ask a child to choose an animal and tell you what it is called. Click on that animal (or ask the child to) listen to that animal sound. Ask all children to imitate that sound. Continue until children are familiar with all the animals and sounds.
Extension - Ask a child to make an animal sound (one of the animals shown on screen). Ask the rest of the class to guess which animal it is. Ask the first child to confirm whether they are right. Click to hear the sound. Whole class repeats the sound.
Guess the animals
Click to get a New Animal. A box will slide into view and you will hear the sound made by a mystery animal. On the right of the screen there will be pictures of four animals. Ask the children to discuss among themselves which animal matches the sound they have heard. You could extend this discussion by asking them to share the sounds that they think each of the four animals make. Ask the children to indicate which animal is the correct one by pointing to each animal in turn and asking children to give a thumbs up or thumbs down. When the children have agreed click on that animal to see if the children are correct.
Extensions
Please remember these are just ideas. You know your children best and can adapt this game in anyway you like to help them learn to blend.
Play bingo - See below for printable animal sounds bingo game cards. Print out bingo cards - children could work individually, in pairs or in small groups. You may wish to laminate the cards. Go to Meet the animals. Ensure that the children can't see the screen (you could turn off the screen or projector or press the freeze or shutter button on the projector remote control). Click randomly on the animals to generate their sounds and ask children to cross them off on their bingo cards if they have that animal. When they have crossed off all the sounds they can shout BINGO.
In pairs children can play with the bingo cards. The children take it in turn to make an animal sound while the other child (or adult) points to the correct animal picture. Swap roles.