Below are ideas for extending this topic beyond the activity & exploration you just completed.

• Lesson Assessment
• Activity: Have more fun experimenting with sound effects.
  
• Read-aloud: Add sound effects to some great books to read-aloud.
• Brain Break Video: For a fun brain break, let your students learn the art of body percussion — making cool sounds by clapping and slapping and stomping.
  

Have your students try other sound effects that are favorites of sound effects artists.

• For a chugging steam train, shake a box of macaroni and cheese in just the right rhythm.
• For a crackling fire, crunch a package of ramen noodles or crumple a big piece of cellophane wrap.
• For a gurgling stream, use a drinking straw to blow bubbles in a cup of water.
  
• For a flying bird or bat, slap a pair of leather gloves together.
  

These read-alouds are great — but maybe they’d be even better with sound effects. Consider inviting your students to add their sounds. (Be warned: This can get noisy!)

• The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, — Once there was a little old lady who was not afraid of anything — until she heard noises in the woods.
• The Rain Stomper, — Can Jazmin chase away rain & thunder with her stomping and shouting?
  
• In the Tall, Tall Grass, — Take a backyard tour with a fuzzy caterpillar and listen to the sounds in the grass.

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