Sound Discrimination

I wanted to test Sophie's ability to tell the instruments apart by listening to their sounds. It was an activity that required a lot of preparation work so I roped Papa in to help. He was happy to play the instruments, record their sounds on his recorder and converted them into MP3 format. Then we took pictures of each instrument and created PowerPoint slidesshow of them with their corresponding sounds.



Before we even started with the activity, Sophie grabbed the pictures and started matching them to the real instruments on display. It was not a big deal to match them correctly but I was surprised at the spontaneity she showed. Fortunately, my camera was in the room so I could capture it.



I showed Sophie the slideshow (tutorial) once and started testing her. She was quite good actually. She could pick the correct pictures to match the sounds almost all the time. She only got confused with the bells and tambourine. However, it was really hard to keep her at one spot. She ran around, grabbing the real instrument instead of the pictures at times and stopped to play the instruments for a while... But she could match them and that was good enough for me.