Sound Foundation for Babies

Help your child get started with listening activities for babies and toddlers. Lessons focus on sound awareness, introductions to music, common daily phrases, and identifying different voices. During weeks 1-5, you’ll focus on your child learning their name, recognizing environmental sounds, and beginning to vocalize to express their needs or respond to sound.

Your child will continue their listening journey with listening activities designed to help them distinguish between vowel and consonant sounds, learn nouns and adjectives, and recognize their name in noisier environments. In weeks 6-10, these listening activities for babies can help you teach your child to imitate new sounds, sing along with songs, and identify rhyming words.

These listening lessons can help your child learn to understand and follow instructions, pair non-verbal communication with spoken words, and spontaneously call members of the family by name. Through the context of simple everyday activities, like getting dressed, eating meals, and making choices, your child will practice their listening and speaking skills.

The listening activities in these lessons will help your child develop new listening and speaking skills, including understanding less-familiar speakers, learning to identify items with common language, and learning new vocabulary around themes like meals or riding in the car. These weekly lessons will use props like favorite stuffed animals, digital cameras, and card games to help your child advance their listening skills in a fun and friendly environment.

These listening exercises for kids will emphasize adding more variety to your child’s vocabulary, identifying most familiar words without context, and using more adjectives. The lessons in weeks 21-25 focus on household themes like cooking, cleaning, and playing to help your child connect listening and speaking with everyday activities. 

These active listening exercises for children include understanding and using longer sentences, noun-verb combinations, and functional items. Weeks 26-30 signify a time when many families should set high expectations for their children’s speech and continue to encourage them to improve and excel in their listening skills. By week 30, your child may know and understand between 102-170 words.

During these listening exercises, your child can continue to build on previous skills by practicing singing songs, identifying rhymes, and introducing longer phrases. With themes like going to the library, visiting a zoo, and playing hide-and-seek, your child will enjoy learning new sounds and words. At this phase in their listening journey, your child might be recognizing new words every day. 

At the conclusion of Sound Foundations for Babies, your child will have practiced many elements of listening and spoken language, including recognizing common words and phrases, and singing most words in familiar songs. These lessons should reinforce the progress your child has made in the last 40 weeks of lessons.