Beep Beep, Who's That?
Listening: hear a vehicle's sound, and find the vehicle that made it.
How it plays
A listening game. Ruby Roo plays a sound (a fire truck's siren, a train, a ferry's horn, a helicopter) and your child taps the vehicle that made it. A right tap names it; the other tap names what it shows, and the sound plays again. Two at a time, with twelve sounds in all. It's in Tiny Steps.
What it's for
Listening: hear a vehicle's sound, and find the vehicle that made it. There is no score to lose and no way to fail: a wrong move is met with a gentle nudge, and a level ends when it's done.
Away from the screen: Sound walk
About two minutes, with things most homes have.
- Stand at the window or the front gate for one minute, very quietly.
- Every time you hear a vehicle, your child says what they think it is.
- Look to see if they were right.
- Make the sounds yourselves: beep beep, choo choo, nee naw.
Three questions to ask while they play
- What did that sound like?
- Which one is the loudest?
- What sound does our car make?
Play together
Things to say or ask
- Listen! Nee naw, nee naw. Who's that?
- That sounded like a train. Choo choo!
Taking turns on one device: One of you listens with eyes closed and guesses; the other taps.
If they find it hard
Turn the sound up and play it again with the speaker button. Make the sound yourself too, then point to the picture together.
From two to eight
Tiny Steps: made for two- and three-year-olds too. With Tiny Steps on, it stays on its gentlest level, a not-yet tap is never counted, and there's nothing to read.
Switch Tiny Steps on in Who's playing?, on the grown-ups' page.
What it practises
- Paying attention. Keeping focus when the easy answer is the wrong one.
PSC Self-management (General capabilities, Personal and Social Capability); EYLF 1 (Early Years Learning Framework V2.0) - Looking and finding. For two- and three-year-olds: looking for something hidden, and knowing it's still there when you can only see a bit of it.
EYLF 4.2 (Early Years Learning Framework V2.0)
The codes are from the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0 (for children from birth to five) and the Australian Curriculum v9 (Foundation to Year 2). Each links to the official wording. Every skill, and the games for it.
What it costs, and what we collect
Nothing, and nothing. There is no account, no advertising and no tracking of any kind. Which games have been played is remembered on your own device and is never sent anywhere. The full version is here, and it's short.
Where it lives
Beep Beep, Who's That? is part of Machines & Vehicles. It works on a phone, a tablet or a classroom screen, and once it's been opened it keeps working with no signal at all.
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