Books in Nursery
Books are so important in supporting children's development.
Sharing books is a wonderful way to spend time with your child: looking at pictures, sharing language and having a cuddle.
Sometimes children will love you to tell them the same story time and time again - that is a lovely thing to do and will help your child to remember the plot, characters and key words and phrases.
Please speak to your child's key person if you need any help or advice about sharing books.
We will have some workshops later this term and we have our Early Words Together programme too that you can get involved in.
The Ideas Store
Have you joined the local Idea Store? If not click here. You can borrow books and much more there.
If you need help, please speak to any member of staff.
Workshops at Children's House
We regularly hold workshops to support family learning. Nicole Gurvidi, the Curriculum Lead for English in Tower Hamlets, recently was a guest speaker.
Nicole impressed upon us the importance of:
Having fun with words.
Reading books, books, more books and when you think that's enough, read another. Read on the train, read on the bus, read in the cafe, read in the bath, read before bed - simply enjoy sharing books. Follow your child's interest and let them choose the books.
The more books you share with your child the more vocabulary they will understand.
Use pictures in newspapers to create stories using your imagination and tell the stories together, adding exciting words to describe what is happening or where the characters are.
Play with sounds: make sound effects to accompany stories you share. Loud sounds, soft sounds, rattles, scratching, tapping. If your child can begin to distinguish between sounds, they will find it easier when they come to using blend and segmenting sounds when they read and write.
Sing songs together and make musical instruments (see Nicole's pots of pasta and rice and her 50p wooden spoons).
Go on a sound walk - listen out for trains, birds, aircrafts, sirens, drills and talk about the sounds. Be a sound collector!
When your child is ready, make a Sound Scrapbook: start with a sound and together you can cut out pictures from newspapers and magazines of objects that start with that sound and stick them on the page.
Have fun together.
Sharing books is a wonderful way to spend time with your child: looking at pictures, sharing language and having a cuddle.
Sometimes children will love you to tell them the same story time and time again - that is a lovely thing to do and will help your child to remember the plot, characters and key words and phrases.
- Have fun and make the time to share stories, information books, pop up books, leaflets, poems and their Special Book from nursery.
- Share books and magazines about things your child is interested in:
- Dinosaurs, Animals, The Planet, Recipe Books, Vehicles, Sport, Photo Albums.
- Sit together, look at the pictures and see what they can tell you and show you.
- Maybe you can add extra information and language for your child.
- Most importantly, just enjoy the books together.
Please speak to your child's key person if you need any help or advice about sharing books.
We will have some workshops later this term and we have our Early Words Together programme too that you can get involved in.
The Ideas Store
Have you joined the local Idea Store? If not click here. You can borrow books and much more there.
If you need help, please speak to any member of staff.
Workshops at Children's House
We regularly hold workshops to support family learning. Nicole Gurvidi, the Curriculum Lead for English in Tower Hamlets, recently was a guest speaker.
Nicole impressed upon us the importance of:
Having fun with words.
Reading books, books, more books and when you think that's enough, read another. Read on the train, read on the bus, read in the cafe, read in the bath, read before bed - simply enjoy sharing books. Follow your child's interest and let them choose the books.
The more books you share with your child the more vocabulary they will understand.
Use pictures in newspapers to create stories using your imagination and tell the stories together, adding exciting words to describe what is happening or where the characters are.
Play with sounds: make sound effects to accompany stories you share. Loud sounds, soft sounds, rattles, scratching, tapping. If your child can begin to distinguish between sounds, they will find it easier when they come to using blend and segmenting sounds when they read and write.
Sing songs together and make musical instruments (see Nicole's pots of pasta and rice and her 50p wooden spoons).
Go on a sound walk - listen out for trains, birds, aircrafts, sirens, drills and talk about the sounds. Be a sound collector!
When your child is ready, make a Sound Scrapbook: start with a sound and together you can cut out pictures from newspapers and magazines of objects that start with that sound and stick them on the page.
Have fun together.
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