Creative Sound Play is an entirely play-based method that gives teachers concrete tools that focus and engage children, by simply making intentional types of sounds–NOT music, in fun, very specific, and deliberate ways.
This 4-module quick-start guide immediately enables all teachers to transform classroom transition times into short, fun learning bursts that solve several universal Pre-K challenges through the core lessons of the Greenfield Method:
Immediately turns unmanageable, wasted transition times into fun, joyful, quality learning bursts and utilizes the repetitive frequency that transition times naturally provide and which help children feel safe and calm
Provides a flexible, comprehensive set of tried-and-true, easy-to-learn, sound activities that transform any transition—whether 5 seconds or 5 minutes, and happen in any location– classrooms, hallways, cafeterias, gyms, or playgrounds—at ones fingertips
Is great fun for teachers and children to learn, lead, make mistakes, laugh together, practice, master, add complexity to, make more mistakes and master again
Inspires all children whether–verbal, non-verbal, and special needs
Helps children develop social emotional learning through collaboration and reflection
Enhances children's executive function skills–self regulation and inhibitory control, creativity and cognitive flexibility, & working memory
Teaches active-listening skills, phonemic awareness, pre-reading literacy, & math and science concepts
Develops mindfulness, independence, and raises self-esteem
Promotes hand-eye coordination
Support students at all language developmental stages
Seamlessly integrates with all curricula and subject matter
Get started with a free preview of a sound activity from the Creative Sound Play Quick Start Guide by subscribing to our newsletter.
Hayes Greenfield, founder of Creative Sound Play, has been a teaching artist for over 30 years, and regularly works with educators to transform transition times into effective routines that seamlessly guide children from one activity to another.
These collaborative, tried-and-true transition activities integrate with all curricula and immediately engage and develop students SEL, executive function skills, mindfulness and so much more.
“[Creative Sound Play] builds in a lot of the executive function—the cognitive development especially. Promoting active-listening, focusing skills, all of those things. It really helps!”
Lead Teacher
“It helps me too. It makes things easier. You get frustrated when the kids are not listening to you, especially at the beginning of the year. There’s so many rules and routines they need to follow. I feel like this will make it easier for the teachers as well to engage the kids.”
Lead Teacher
“I’ve worked at a lot of schools and we’ve never done sound and the elements of sound. We have music class but it’s not to the level that we did it. So I feel like it was really a privilege to see the students here that are so young evolve.”
Assistant Teacher
“A fun and engaging set of activities for kids that is solid gold!”
“Sound is ever-present and it’s simple. You don’t need anything expensive. So out of something so simple, there's a world of infinite possibilities.”
“[The] Method provides all non-music pre-school teachers with the tools necessary to work with sound and silence in their classrooms in very substantial, musical ways.”