Feeling a little forgetful today, and struggling to remember names the class made portraits of one another to help me. Drawing a portrait is a bit like listening, you have concentrate to get all the details. Armed with my new cheat sheet, I’ll get my head around the names in no time.

But back to this listening thing, is there anything we can do to hear better……..someone suggested if we are quiet and still and don’t making any sounds and listen more and more and more and more

I wanted to find something that would help us to focus on the sounds around us and in the classroom….maybe a listening device would work……….

So we got to making our own listening devices……..now everyone could hear really well, there were bird sounds, and talking sounds, builders making a footpath, there was drilling and stamping, the whiteboard quietly hushing us and my favourite of all a leaf falling off a tree!! Only one listening device did not work, it appears the glue has blocked the opening and sounds are getting stuck!!