This Book is

Contributed
by:
Faisal Shazad
Memonz MInd
 B R I TA N N I C A

DI SC OV ER Y
LIBRARY

S OU ND S
In this book, you will:
discover interesting things about sounds.
learn new words.
answer fun questions.
play a search game.
find more sounds activities at the back of the book.

C HICAGO L ONDON N EW D ELHI PARIS S EOUL S YDNEY TAIPEI T OKYO

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Was it your kitty cat crying to be fed?

Was it someone calling you a sleepyhead?
Maybe you heard wind in the trees so tall.
Or did you hear footsteps coming down the hall?

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Did you hear cars and buses out in the street?

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there are so many sounds to hear!
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 Outside sounds are often big and loud.
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Some sounds tell us things we need to know. A train whistle tells us to watch out and stay back.
The train is coming!
We hear the doorbell and we know someone o w oooooo!
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 Some sounds are funny… Many sounds are so soft
like hic-hic-hiccups or a big, loud belching burp. that we hardly hear them at all...
A hee-haw laugh might make you laugh too! like the quiet tick-tock of a clock,
and whispers at night once you’ve turned off the light.

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 When night comes, the house grows quiet. A wide-eyed owl hoots in the treetops.
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But many animals are just waking up.

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A wolf howls at the moon. wwwww
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 Animals make so many sounds!
Big cats roar. Little cats purr and hiss. Dogs yelp and yowl. Birds chirp and coo.
Big pigs snuffle and snort. Little pigs squeal and squish. They bark and growl! Insects buzz and cows go moooo!

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 Some of the very best sounds come from musical instruments.
Many instruments have strings. Some instruments make sounds when you hit them.
The guitar, the harp, and the violin all have strings. Drums are this kind of instrument.
So is the xylophone.
The flute and the trumpet are two instruments
you blow into.

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Your voice is like an instrument too.
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The sound of your voice moves through the air. Dogs have excellent hearing.
Others hear you. They hear sounds that people
never hear at all.

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 An echo is a special kind of sound.
Imagine standing near a high You will hear your own name
canyon wall and shouting out ringing through the canyon.
your name.
When the sound comes back
The sound moves out like a wave like this, it is called an echo.
you cannot see. It hits the
canyon wall and bounces back.

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 t his p i c tu re make
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thin g s.
How many of
these things can Try making the
you find? sound of each
thing you find.

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 8 Fun Ways to Learn About S OU ND S

S OU ND S What Makes That Sound? hats, masks, sheets, sunglasses, or anything

that will make the game more fun—and funny!
With friends, cut pictures out of old

canyon (KAN yun)

GLOSSARY
a deep, narrow river valley with steep sides 1 magazines, catalogs, or newspapers.
Choose pictures of lots of different
things that make sounds, like animals,
Homemade Band!
There are so many things around
chorus (KOR us)
people
a group of singers who sing together, usually several
musical instruments, and different kinds of
machines_anything that makes a noise!

Put all the pictures face down or put them in a

3 the house that you and your
friends can use for musical
instruments. Try putting together
your own band to make music.
box so you can’t see what they are. Take turns
choosing a picture. When it is your turn, try
cymbals (SIM buhlz) plate-shaped musical instruments making the sound that the thing on the picture
Fill some glasses with different amounts of
water. Gently tap the rims of the glasses with
that make a loud, clashing sound when struck makes and let the others take turns guessing
a spoon and you will hear different musical
what it is. Whoever is first to guess right gets
together the next turn. Play until there are no more
tones. Altogether they make up a kind of
xylophone. Use two flat pot lids as cymbals.
pictures left.

echo (EK oh) a sound that repeats over and over when Put beans (white beans, kidney beans, or any
Move to the Music other kind of hard beans) into small plastic
the wave that carries the sound hits something and jars with lids and shake them like maracas.
bounces back Here is a fun game to play with What other instruments can you make from

foghorn (FOG horn) a horn that sounds as a warning to other ships

2 friends. Turn on some music that you
like a lot. What kind of movement
does the music make you think of?
Each person will take a turn moving to the
things around the house?

in foggy weather music while pretending to be some animal or

other thing that the music brings to mind. You
might pretend to be a cat; a kite in the wind; or
kettle (KET uhl) a metal kitchen container used for boiling water a mean, stomping giant, for example.

The other players clap to the music while calling

maracas (ma RAHK ahz) rattles, usually made from a dried vegetable
(or gourd)
xylophone (ZY luh fone) a musical instrument with wooden or
metal bars of different lengths, which is played by
striking the bars with wooden hammers
out what they think the moving person is pre-
tending to be. Let each person have a turn
keeping the others guessing! For more fun you
could also find things to dress up in—collect
things from around the house, such as scarves,

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