Communication, Language, and LIterature (Speaking)
An activity for older infants
Materials
- paper towel rolls - paper bag - garbage bag
Materials for modifiers -toilet paper rolls -gift wrap rolls
Modifiers
For an easier challenge: -Replace paper towel rolls with toilet paper rolls
For a trickier challenge: - Replace paper towel rolls with gift wrap rolls
Follow-up Ideas
-Practice talking with the infants more in the classroom. Even if the infants don't seem to respond, talking to the infants will not only improve their communication skills, the infants will also develop their cognitive and emotional skills.
-Bring out plastic telephones and pretend to talk on the phone with your infants. You can pretend to be the infant's mother or grandmother to encourage them to speak.
Originating Idea
This is probably one of the cheapest activities you can find-- and one of the most entertaining. While talking to infants assists with communication, language, and literacy, teachers need to also encourage children to communicate with teachers in turn. These tubes help teachers do just that.
How to Make Activity
The classroom uses paper towels for clean ups, so the teacher just needs to collect the paper towel rolls when they're empty. She should keep a paper bag of them in a cabinet so she can pull them out when she wants to do this activity.
How to Implement Activity
After morning snack time, the teachers should help the infants wash their hands and let them have free choice time. Then, during free choice, bring out the talking tubes. The teacher could talk to the infants through the tubes if the infants are unsure of what they want to do with the tubes.
The infants will then take a tube and start making sounds through the tubes. If the infants are beginning to talk, they may say simple words like "Hello!" or "Hi!" Otherwise, they may try to make simple words through the tubes, or they may enjoy just making silly sounds and noises through the talking tubes. Sometimes the students may talk to their teachers by putting the other end of the tube next to her mouth or ear.
At the end of free choice time, the teacher should pull out a garbage bag and say, "Okay, let put our talking tubes in the bag!" The infants will put the tubes in the bag, Then the teachers will pull out the infants' coats and start preparing the infants to go outside for recess.