Miss Marie reads 'Splish Splash, Bang, Crash', a book about noises! Let's see how many noises you can recognize and copy!

Miss Coco reads an Ebook called "dragons in the city". It is a story about a family who are celebrating Chinese New Year. This book mentions a few of the traditions that families do every year to celebrate this lunar new year.

Miss Marie reads 'We are not tired' by Selina Young. It is a great story about what can happen at bedtime! A brother and sister introduce all sorts of ideas how to use toys for imaginary play and role play. There are so many play skills to learn from this book!

Miss Korinna reads 'The very hungry caterpillar by Eric Carle and shows you how to use simple home made puppets to illustrate the story. We made the butterfly for this story together last week! Enjoy introducing the puppets to your children and then let your children have a go at telling the stories with puppetry props. Don't forget to share your learning with us, we love seeing what you get up to!

Miss Aysa reads a story using Makaton . Can you listen to the story and remember what pictures you saw.? Makaton can support children with social engagement and helps develop language skills.

Remember to try and encourage your children to

Look

Listen

Laugh

Talk

Read

When you are looking at books together

You can find more stories on this website under 'Stories to share'!

Miss Korinna reads 'What a busy baby'. We know this is one of our nursery children's favourite books, they love copying what the baby does! Miss Korinna demonstrates how it is great fun and good for speech and language development to engage with a book without actually having to read the words. Sometimes we just discover books together! This can be done in any language!

As we talked about in our Zoom meeting, here is our focus book 'Engine Engine'. You can explore this book together! At nursery, we read our focus book every day at story time. After the children know the book, we read the beginning of sentences and your children tell us what happens next! We also do lots of art activities to make a display on the wall and we look at the display together to tell the story without the book. And finally, we introduce props and role play our focus story together. Maybe you can find some props in your home to role play a story that your child knows well?

Can you look at the pictures with your child and ask them simple questions such as

What can you see?

Can you point to the telephone box, London Eye, bus and car.

You can also request your child's favourite story in an online form on this website under 'Stories to share'!

Miss Nuriye reads the book "Snow" by Sam Usher. It's a great idea for language development to make story time part of your daily routine. Children need to hear stories over and over again, they might enjoy playing this video several times! At the bottom of this page, you can let us know which stories you would like us to read and we will do our best to post your child's favourite story here!

Miss Korinna reads "Say Hello to the Jungle Animals!" Enjoy listening to the story and pick up some tips how to read a book with a focus on Speech and Language Development. Here, Miss Korinna points out the importance of encouraging your child to make descriptive noises when reading a book. Descriptive noises like 'sssss' for a snake develop our speech sounds which makes it easier to form words.

Miss Nuryie reads 'The snowy day' by Ezra Jack Keats. It is about a young boy who explores snow and how you can play with it. We hope you had a go at playing with the snow this Sunday morning when it snowed in Hackney!