👂 Document Hearing Awareness Week Learning with Our Free Learning Story Pack!
Hearing Awareness Week is a meaningful opportunity to support conversations with children about hearing, listening, communication, ear health, and inclusion in respectful and age-appropriate ways.
This free pack has been created to help educators document children’s learning, conversations, and discoveries as they explore how we listen, communicate, and care for our ears within the early learning environment.
A simple and meaningful way to capture children’s emerging understandings as they engage in experiences related to sound, communication, belonging, relationships, and inclusion.
This pack can support educators to record children’s voice, learning, and participation as they take part in discussions and play experiences linked to listening, noticing sounds, expressing themselves, and learning that people communicate in many different ways.
✨ Features:
- Designed to help educators document learning linked to Hearing Awareness Week, listening, sound, communication, inclusion, and wellbeing
- A meaningful resource for recording children’s conversations, questions, experiences, and reflections about hearing and ear health
- Supports inclusive practice by valuing children’s ideas, language, observations, and different ways of communicating
- Ideal for portfolios, program documentation, displays, or learning story records
5 quick Hearing Awareness Week play-based ideas for ECEC
1. Listening Walk
Take children on a walk around the service or outdoor area and pause to listen for different sounds such as birds, wind, voices, cars, or leaves crunching.
2. Sound Matching Game
Use small containers or objects that make different sounds and invite children to shake, listen, and match the same sounds together.
3. Musical Freeze and Listen
Play music, then pause it for freeze moments where children listen carefully for what they can hear around them once the music stops.
4. Story and Communication Circle
Read a story about listening, communication, or belonging and talk about how people share ideas through talking, signing, gestures, facial expressions, and body language.
5. Make Your Own Shakers
Invite children to create simple shakers using safe materials, then compare loud, soft, fast, and slow sounds while talking about what their ears can notice.
