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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.