Video: Getting ready in the morning: Waking up

﻿In today's lesson we're going to look at waking up in the mornings. Now I don't know about you, but for me waking up in the morning has to happen very slowly and very quietly. But for some of us, we prefer to wake up with a bang and have lots of loud music to wake us up or a very loud alarm clock. We are going to look at all the different things that our ears like to tolerate when we wake up in the mornings. And also the things that our ears don't like to hear in the mornings when we wake up. We as therapists have tried to think of the best way to continue to support children, young people and their families. We will be exploring topic areas that we regularly provide advice and support on across all ages and abilities. Each lesson will have ideas and activities that can be carried out at home or in school. This information is to be used alongside any specific strategies or resources which have been given by your child's school or therapist. If you have any questions or would like help tailoring this to your child's needs, then please contact your local therapy service. In today's lesson we're going to look at waking up in the morning and how sometimes our ears may not like some of the sounds that we encounter. And we're going to look at some ways to make waking up a little bit easier. But first of all, let's remind ourselves what our ears do. Our ears work together as a team and they are very important in helping us interpret sounds and follow conversation. Our ears are also very important in in helping us to locate sounds, so we know where things are coming from. And because of that, our ears are really important in helping us to stay safe. In today's lesson, you are going to need paper, some pens and pencils. So please pause the video here to collect all of your resources and then once you've got everything together, you can press play and then we will resume where we finished. Oh, my goodness, can you just look at that picture. Sometimes our ears can be very, very sensitive or over responsive. When there's too many people talking or there's too many sounds, it can be really hard for our ears. And sounds that are too loud, too highly pitch or maybe even scratchy sounding can be really annoying to our ears. Breaking up in the morning can be really hard especially when we don't like to listen to lots of music or when there's an alarm clock that has to wake us up. Some people prefer to be spoken to very quietly in the morning and they prefer really quiet sounds because their ears are very sensitive. However, some of us need a lot more sounds to wake up and our ears can be under responsive. So we sometimes miss out sound cues. So what will happen is maybe someone will quietly come and tell you it's time to wake up, but your ears are not tuning in to what they're saying, so you carry on sleeping. For people whose ears are under responsive they often need a lot more sound clues. And in the morning, this could be that they need a fast waking up song or they need an alarm clock that they can snooze so that they can hear it a few times and then get up. Listening to lively music can also help to get you going for the day. So let's have a look at our activity, design a sound sensational bedroom, and we're going to need our pens and our papers for this activity. So make sure you've got them all ready and then we going to carry on with this lesson. So we've spoken a little bit in other lessons about calm bedrooms and busier bedrooms. So when your ears are over sensitive, so over responsive, so too much sounds will make it really feel annoying. You may want to sleep with your door and your windows really tightly close so that you don't get a lot of the outside noise. You may want to have thick blinds and curtains and carpets to keep noise down as well. In a busier bedroom or a noisier bedroom for those people whose ears are under responsive and they need a lot more sound to keep going. You may like to sleep with the door open so you can hear what's going on around and hat's quite comforting for you. You may prefer to have an alarm clock and you also may prefer to have a wake up playlist to listen to. So this could be a list of songs that help you to get going in the morning. So there's a few ideas about how you can make your bedroom sound sensational. So we're going to pause the video now for you to complete this task. So what I want you to do is to draw a picture of your bedroom, chat to your parent or carer about what will help your ears to wake up in the mornings. And you can draw anything that will be helpful. So we've talked about carpets, blinds. Maybe the door open or closed. Maybe having some music. Maybe having an alarm clock or not having an alarm clock. Once you've designed your sensory smart bedroom, you can then take your picture and you can put it outside on your bedroom door so that people can see what your ears need for you to wake up. Once you've finish this task, please press play and then we'll carry on with the lesson Fantastic, here's a few more things that help calm our ears and also to help wake up our ears. To calm our ears, slowly rhythms are sometimes helpful. So slower music, lower volume and lower sound pitches are usually more calming. So, if you think about really low bass sounds that can be calming to our ears. Whereas to wake up our ears, often faster or more irregular rhythms help us to wake up a little bit more. And higher volumes and kind of variable sound frequencies are usually a lot more energising. And what I mean by that is, when music has high and low tones all around, it helps us to wake up our years. So these are just a few more things that you can think about when you're talking to your parents or you carer about your perfect waking up routine in the mornings. Well done, you've done incredibly well today and I hope you had fun in designing your bedroom and also having a chat to your parent or carer about what you need in the mornings to wake up. Share your work with Oak National. If you'd like to, please ask your parents or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter tagging @OakNational and #LaernwithOak.

Lesson summary: Getting ready in the morning: Waking up

Waking up in the morning and the sounds we hear.

Getting ready in the morning: Waking up

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