Sound Travels: Sounds and Feelings

Certain sounds in our environment evoke feelings within us. 

Identifying facial expressions

To help the children become more aware of this they first identified feelings from facial expressions.

I introduced the idea that some sounds can cause us to feel certain feelings and we listened 

to different sounds and talked about our reactions. The children were accepting of the fact 

that they had different perspectives and it was okay to feel differently. 

Reflecting on how we feel

We listened to an ambulance siren, an dog barking, a witches laugh, howling wind.

Music can have the same effect!

We listened to Bach's Organ Toccata and it didn't take long for most of the 

children to express the music made them feel scared. 

It's not surprising that this piece of music is often in music scores for horror movies!

This music makes me feel:

Roy - happy          Bela - scared

Esme - happy          Jason - scared

Oliver - happy        Trystan - mad

Rylan - mad          Tyreese - scared

Rielle - sad        Alexis - happy

Sophie - happy