Simon Says Sounds 🐸 A Listening Game — Hear the Sound, Do the Move | Gentle Letters

Simon Says Sounds — listen close, listen close! Simon the frog is calling the game: if the word starts with suh… touch your nose! Sun? Yes — boop! Sock? Yes! Moon? Think, think, think… no, that's muh — stay still! And SHIP? Wait… ship starts with shhh — S and H together say shhh! Three rounds of listening: beginning sounds (touch your nose), ending sounds (stomp your feet — listen all the way to the end, the last sound is the clue!), and one more round of beginning sounds (clap your hands) with a sneaky PH surprise. If you hear it, do the move — if not, hold still and wait! A whole-body phonemic-awareness game the viewer plays along with: a bunny, a duckling, and a bear cub model every move (and every freeze), a signboard posts each round's rule, and the built-in "think, think, think" pause gives your child time to answer before the reveal. The two digraph gotchas (ship, phone) teach the bonus lesson: two letters, one sound. Simon conducts every chorus from his stump — hooray for you! 0:00 Simon Says Sounds — listen close! (chorus) 0:18 Round 1: starts with suh? Touch your nose! (sun, sock, moon, ship — shhh!) 0:45 If you hear it, do the move (chorus) 1:03 Round 2: ends with tuh? Stomp your feet! (cat, hat, dog, boat) 1:30 Hold still and wait (chorus) 1:48 Round 3: starts with puh? Clap your hands! (pig, pan, bug, phone — fff!) 2:15 You're doing great (chorus) 2:33 Great listening — the game is done. Hooray for you! Gentle Letters makes low-stimulation learning songs for early readers. I make these with the help of AI tools and edit every video by hand to keep the teaching clear and the pacing calm.