Listening exercises for kids

Question

were can i find listening exercises for kids?

Answer 1

Not knowing the age group you are looking for...

**Simon says is great, especially as it gets harder and harder.

**You can also play a game where you give a direction, then add to it, one step at a time, and as kids forget a step, they sit.  The one left standing is the winner.

**A whispering game I've heard described as Telephone or rumors also is good.

**Bingo is great, and you can use it for math or vocabulary skills at the same time.

**Tell the students how to draw a picture, one step at a time, and see who comes closest to the picture.  WARNING: it is really hard to write your directions so that they are clear, so this takes a lot of work.

**Describe something and have the kids try to identify it.

Some websites that have other ideas are below.

Answer 2

Here's a good one I learned in college...

Put the kids in pairs and give them a variety of tangrams.  Each student should have a matching set of them.  Have the kids sit back to back and have one student arrange their tangrams into a pattern of some sort (they could be 2 or 3 dimensional depending if they stack them or not).  Then, have that student give clear, step-by-step directions to the other student on how to recreate what they've made.  The listener can't ask questions.  Have them compare what they've done at the end.  This is a good activity for geometry as well as listening and clearly communicating.  The kids learn a ton!

Answer 3

"Chinese whispers, Russian Scandal or Telephone is a game in which each successive participant secretly whispers to the next a phrase or sentence whispered to them by the preceding participant. Cumulative errors from mishearing often result in the sentence heard by the last player differing greatly and amusingly from the one uttered by the first."

Answer 4

we play "I have, who has"  You have to be attentive.  I time the group or groups to instill a bit of competition and therefore attention.  Pick your topic...we do it with states and capitals, math facts, vocabulary.  It goes in a circle and you can start with any card if you make it right.  The first person says, "who has Sacramento" so the person with the card that says, I have California reads theirs, and maybe it says, who has Carson City... I have Nevada, who has Salt Lake City..and so on.  I have done it with exponents, decimals, rounding, science terms.  it is great!