Here are 5 tips which you can do at home to improve your child’s language skills:
Help your child understand more by building on his receptive language. Model for the child what a word or a phrase means, like during “Clean up time!” then show the child how to put the toys in the box.
Encourage your child to imitate sounds during free play. Have child look at your face as you make the different animal sounds or vehicle sounds and encourage him to imitate. Word sounds , onomatopoeia, are fun ways to help children practice expressive language.
Allow child to display recognition of word before identification of word. Show child some colours and ask the child to point out “red”. If the answer is correct, say “red” to model for the child.
Play games to practice turn taking and joint attention (“Watch me! It’s time to play! Let’s throw!” Then toss the item in the box excitedly, “Yay!” or “I did it!” .Next offer your child a turn. Say something like, “Here you go! Ball! Throw the ball in!”)
Do lots of verbal routines. Allow child to hear phrases during games, stories and role-playing create opportunities for child to join in and practice using wide variety of verbal routines, “It’s lunch time!” “Pizza! Pizza! Yummy, yummy Pizza!
Music has the power to affect our socio-emotional and psychological well-being. It allows one to express or arouse emotions. Music and music experiences also support the formation of important brain connections that are being established over the first three years of life (Carlton 2000).
Singing a lullaby while rocking a baby stimulates early language development, promotes attachment, and supports an infant’s growing spatial awareness as the child experiences her body moving in space.
5 ways how music develops your child’s skills and promotes his development:
Singing about feelings helps babies and toddlers learn the words to describe their emotional experiences (“If you’re happy and you know it…”)
Build cooperation and relationships
Babies and young toddlers develop self esteem and a feeling of competence when they can make an impact on their world.
Music encourages turn taking. Picture babies passing instruments back and forth to a teacher or toddlers taking turns with the classroom’s toy drums
Playing songs and using musical styles from children’s home cultures create continuity between home and the caregiving setting
Reading aloud in the child’s first years builds their vocabulary, their knowledge about the world, and the sounds and patterns of written language—all of which lay a solid foundation for literacy. Reading also is a great way to involve everyone at the same time. Reading allows everyone to cuddle together and bond. Daily reading experience for just 10 minutes a day will do wonders.
4 benefits of reading stories early
Provides your baby with information about the world around them
Teaches them the importance of communication
Builds their listening, memory, and vocabulary skills
Introduces them to things like numbers, letters, colors, and shapes
Speak to us and get to know our language rich activities at Camelot Infant and Preschool centre. Call / WhatsApp 9811 8333
Baby play is all about back-and-forth interactions with you. And when you interact with your baby during play, you give your baby important information for understanding the world.
Also, playing with your baby builds your relationship and sends a simple but powerful message – you are important to me. This message is key to helping your baby learn about who they are and where they fit in the world. And it gives your baby confidence to keep exploring and learning about the world.
At Camelot Infant and Preschool, we plan series of fun and hands on activities to engage children to learn and explore through their senses. Call on 9811 8333 to schedule a visit or find out more!
Managing strong, negative emotions is surely much easier said than done. But it’s worth the effort, because the payoff is huge, for you and your child.
Here are 3 helpful guiding principles and strategies:
Feelings are not right or wrong. It is what you do with your feelings that can be helpful or hurtful. What’s most important is that you tune in to and own your feelings.
Having appropriate expectations is critical because the meaning you assign to your child’s behavior impacts how you manage your own emotions and reactions to the behavior at hand.
What you do have control over is how you respond to your children’s actions, as this is what guides and shapes their behavior.
At Camelot, we are here to nurture your child to learn about their emotions and regulate their behaviours in relation with others.
