I'm Learning / Instruments
CategoryInstrument words, and how each one sounds
A harp, a xylophone, a set of maracas. Sixteen instruments most children see long before they can name them, each with a picture, the spoken word, and a short recording of how it sounds. It is the category that teaches the ear as much as the vocabulary.
Accordion
Cello
Clarinet
Drum
Flute
Guitar
Harmonica
Harp
Maracas
Piano
Saxophone
Tambourine
Triangle
Trumpet
Violin
Xylophone
Six ways to play with these words
Hearing comes first here. In Listening your child picks the instrument from its sound alone, and the same sixteen turn up in Explore, Memory, Reading, Spelling and Colouring.