How you can support your child


You can support your child in all the areas of learning. Here are a few simple ideas that you can do with them.


PSED


• You can help by encouraging your child to use the toilet independently, wash their hands, put on and fasten their coats.


• Playing games which encourage sharing and turn taking will help your child to build their social skills.


• Give children time to run, jump, climb and play outdoors.


Physical Development


• Encourage children in activities such as building, drawing, threading beads, or filling and emptying containers in the water all of which develop manipulative skills.


• Give children time to run, jump, climb and play outdoors.


Communication, Language and Literacy


• Reading books (stories, information books, newspapers, magazines, comics etc), encouraging your child to join in and talk about books.


• Singing songs and nursery rhymes. • Modelling correct letter formation and pencil grip.


• Taking time to listen to them talking about things they’ve done and answering their questions.


Mathematics and Shape


• Talk about the shapes you can see in the environment


• Comparing things which are heavy and light or long and short


• Pointing out numbers all around • Singing counting songs and rhymes • Counting, adding and subtracting anything and everything - socks, cars, shopping, cutlery, fingers and toes.


Expressive Arts and Design


• Talk with your child about their imaginative play and join in if possible.


• Encourage them to be flexible in their thinking and use of materials and praising them for their efforts or ideas as well as the end product. Talk with your child about the places they go and things they see in the world around them.


Understanding of the World


• Answering and asking questions - What if…? Why do you think…? How did you…?


• Letting children join in with everyday activities - washing up, cooking, shopping, helping in the garden...


• If possible, let them have access to technology.


Reading • We will listen to your child read at least once a week. We will change their reading book and your child can choose a fiction or non-fiction book from our class library or library bus which we ask you to read to them at home. We record all books sent home in your child’s reading record. This record also allows for you and your child to write comments about the book.


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