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Support for Learning at Home

Support Your Childs Learning at Home

As part of our ongoing working with parents to support the home learning environment, we would like to regularly send home activity suggestions you can do at home to support your child’s learning.  
Your child is learning everyday with every experience you offer.  Bath times, story time, meal times etc are all times where your child has fun and learns with you. 
 
The Essex Talk,Listen Cuddle website has a huge range of resources including the prime areas of development to help you support your childs learning and development. 

Other sites such as CBeeies has lots of ideas and activities 

Letters and Sounds
 
Caterpillars use the letters and sounds phase one document to help teach children how the alphabet works for reading and spelling. Phase one activities concentrate on developing children’s speaking and listening skills, phonological awareness and oral blending and segmenting.  We have a spare Letter and Sounds DVD which demonstrates activities should you wish to borrow it. The document can also be found on the internet.
 
 

To support your child at home you may wish to regularly read books as part of your daily book sharing. Read to them with plenty of intonation and expression. Encourage your child to join in with the repetitive phases. Sing nursery rhymes and move to different beats. Pots and pans are great instruments! Ask your child to use his/her listening ears and play/move in  time to the beat – fast, slow, skipping, marching etc. 

Speech & Language

We often have enquiries about how well a child’s speech is developing or how to introduce phonics. The Talk Listen Cuddle website run by Essex has a wonderful collection of ideas, support and guidance and we thoroughly recommend to all parents and carers. 

 
 

You can also check your childs speech and language development using the Child Progress checker. 

Details of further help and support including speech and language threrapy in North Essex can be found here.