Learning to listen and speak well is the foundation of child care/preschool education. Child care providers and families can easily support children’s abilities to communicate by just simply listening and talking with them. Interacting with you is how children grow their social skills. What you exemplify in your speech and listening behavior is what children will learn and replicate. It is important to know that listening skills are as vital as speech skills. Also, children are individuals and develop naturally and normally at different rates.In preschool, children learn to:•Participate in conversations in which eight out of every ten words are understandable.•Form sentences of six or more words.•Ask "who", "what", "where", and "why" questions.•Understand and follow spoken instruction.•Link two ideas in a sentence to organize a thought.•Tell a simple story.•Sing songs, play rhyming games, perform finger plays.•Understand the concept of writing: the idea that letters carry messages.•Show some understanding of the alphabet.By age 4•Speak and understand approximately 1,500 words.•Write some letters and words.•Repeat their name, address, and phone number.•Explain a four - or five - step sequence.Adriana's Daycare will set up their activity room so the children spend lots of time interacting with one another. Read to the children daily and ask questions about the story afterward. Each child may be asked to talk about something they are interested in, either during formal show-and-tell time or informally discussing a topic or book. Adriana's Daycare provides pre-K educational topics such as alphabet letters and simple stories to enhance language learning. We provide three alphabet letters each month and encourage the students to write them and come up with words that begin with that letter in circle time.Activities to Develop Listening and Speaking SkillsGo on a neighborhood "sound walk" to identify noises, or have children close their eyes while you use instruments or household items to make a noise. Have them identify the sounds. Bake a cake. Have your child dictate a letter about their day. Tape (video or audio) your child singing a song or telling a story. Using no more than four steps for the following: retell simple stories in sequence, show your child photos from a family outing and ask them to help you put the story in order, cut up a comic strip and let your child put it in order.Kids who are read to each and every day develop better reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. As an active listener, you set the example that listening is important; that the person you are listening to is relevant, building confidence in children. Active listening mean not just hearing what children say but getting involved in real conversations with them: Ask questions, make comments, keep the chat going, and give them plenty of opportunities to speak their mind. Don't be surprised if you hear them repeating something you said. Your legacy, as an interactive participant in a child's life is a social, joyful, confident person, excited about learning.Educational Topics For This Month•Letters D, E and F•Numbers 2 and 3•Color: Orange•Meet Seth the Square•Firefighter•All About Me•Fast/Slow•Halloween•Pumpkin Fun•Traffic Light•Firefighter Truck•Frog•Birds: Flamingo•Deer •Eagle October 2010
Learning to listen and speak well is the foundation of child
care/preschool education. Child care providers and families can
easily support children’s abilities to communicate by just simply
listening and talking with them. Interacting with you is how
children grow their social skills. What you exemplify in your
speech and listening behavior is what children will learn and
replicate. It is important to know that listening skills are as vital as speech
skills. Also, children are individuals and develop naturally and normally at
different rates.
In preschool, children learn to:
•
Participate in conversations in which eight out of every ten words are
understandable.
•
Form sentences of six or more words.
•
Ask "who", "what", "where", and "why" questions.
•
Understand and follow spoken instruction.
•
Link two ideas in a sentence to organize a thought.
•
Tell a simple story.
•
Sing songs, play rhyming games, perform finger plays.
•
Understand the concept of writing: the idea that letters carry messages.
•
Show some understanding of the alphabet.
By age 4
•
Speak and understand approximately 1,500 words.
•
Write some letters and words.
•
Repeat their name, address, and phone number.
•
Explain a four - or five - step sequence.
Adriana's Daycare will set up their activity room so the
children spend lots of time interacting with one another.
Read to the children daily and ask questions about the story
afterward. Each child may be asked to talk about something
they are interested in, either during formal show-and-tell
time or informally discussing a topic or book. Adriana's
Daycare provides pre-K educational topics such as alphabet
letters and simple stories to enhance language learning. We
provide three alphabet letters each month and encourage the
students to write them and come up with words that begin
with that letter in circle time.
Activities to Develop Listening and Speaking Skills
Go on a neighborhood "sound walk" to identify noises, or have children close
their eyes while you use instruments or household items to make a noise. Have
them identify the sounds. Bake a cake. Have your child dictate a letter about
their day. Tape (video or audio) your child singing a song or telling a story.
Using no more than four steps for the following: retell simple stories in
sequence, show your child photos from a family outing and ask them to help
you put the story in order, cut up a comic strip and let your child put it in order.
Kids who are read to each and every day develop better reading, writing,
speaking and listening skills. As an active listener, you set the example that
listening is important; that the person you are listening to is relevant, building
confidence in children. Active listening mean not just hearing what children say
but getting involved in real conversations with them: Ask questions, make
comments, keep the chat going, and give them plenty of opportunities to speak
their mind. Don't be surprised if you hear them repeating something you said.
Your legacy, as an interactive participant in a child's life is a social, joyful,
confident person, excited about learning.
Educational Topics For This Month
•
Letters D, E and F
•
Numbers 2 and 3
•
Color: Orange
•
Meet Seth the Square
•
Firefighter
•
All About Me
•
Fast/Slow
•
Halloween
•
Pumpkin Fun
•
Traffic Light
•
Firefighter Truck
•
Frog
•
Birds: Flamingo
•
Deer
•
Eagle
October 2010
