📖 Animal Sound Detective

🧺 Materials

None needed — just the two of you.

📋 Instructions (parent)

1. Ask your child to name any animal they can think of (say it in Spanish together).
2. Have them stretch out the very first sound of the animal's name, like 'g-g-gato'.
3. Ask what letter makes that first sound, then trace the letter in the air with a finger 'paintbrush'.
4. Take turns: you say an animal, they catch the first sound, then they say one for you.
5. For a bonus, have them draw the letter in the air big and small, fast and slow.

➕ Extension ideas

• Name only fall animals (owl, squirrel, bear) and clap once for each sound you hear.
• Draw one of the animals with an invisible finger and guess what the other drew.

🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish

💬 Conversation prompts

• ¿Qué animal quieres nombrar primero?
• ¿Cuál es el primer sonido de esa palabra?
• ¿Qué letra hace ese sonido?
• ¿Puedes pensar en otro animal que empiece igual?
• ¿Cómo dibujarías esa letra en el aire, grande o pequeña?

🔑 Vocabulary

• gato — cat
• perro — dog
• búho — owl
• sonido — sound
• letra — letter
• animal — animal
• primero — first
• dibujar — to draw