Happy New Year!
Wake Up, Shake Up!
Traditional Tales
For the next two weeks we will be immersing ourselves in Traditional Tales. Stories are one of the most effective ways for children to develop their communication and language skills.
This week you can help to encourage your child to repeat refrains from the stories. For example, your child may notice the repeated use of the phrase, 'Run, run as fast as you can. You can’t catch me I'm a Gingerbread man.'
You could do this in many ways, including :
- retelling the story together
- using toys to act it out
- performing the story with family members
- making parts of the story with playdough, lego or something similar
However your child wishes to explore this, try to encourage the use of story telling language. Remember, this can be in English, or your home language.
Your class teacher would love to see a clip of your story telling on ILD.
Extra Story Telling Challenge
Can you use any of the storytelling signs to help you retell the story?
Signs for Learning Cards
Sensory Play
Variations of Soapy Sensory Play:
Nursery Rhyme Time
Story and Song Time
Characteristics of Effective Learning
Have a wonderful day!