Animals of the world

Ages 0 to 2 A grown-up reads and plays along · about 10 minutes

Read together

The cow says moo. The cat says meow.

The rooster says cock-a-doodle-doo. In Spanish, quiquiriquí. In Tagalog, tik-tilaok.

Do it

1. Gather soft toys or a picture book of animals.
2. Make each animal's sound. Let your child copy.
3. Try a different language: cat: miau (Spanish), ngiyaw (Filipino); dog: guau (Spanish), aw-aw (Filipino); cow: muu (Spanish), mu (Filipino).
4. Notice that the animals sound the same, but people hear them differently.

Talk about it

• Which animal sound is the funniest?
• Which animals live near us?

For the grown-up

Animal sounds are some of a child's first words. The different spellings show how languages hear the same sound in their own way.

Mark as done

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Where this comes from

This is a play and practice activity with no factual claims to source.

Written with AI assistance and checked against the sources listed. Please read it before sharing it with a child.