All the songs from J’aime Chanter are now available to download for FREE from our website (see Sample audio files). We hope you enjoy singing your way through your isolation.
https://www.brilliantpublications.co.uk/book/jaime-chanter-207
If you have a spare moment (unlikely we know) we’d love to see how you use the songs. Perhaps you could set-up a singalong through social media.
When children learn to express themselves clearly and to listen to others, they benefit from improved social skills and greater self-confidence.
Not only do children’s speaking and listening skills differ tremendously when they start preschool, but children also develop these skills at differing rates. Fortunately, preschool provides an opportunity to reduce any deficits that a child may have with these skills (the earlier the better!), so that children of all backgrounds and learning abilities can succeed in the next stage of their educational careers.
With this in mind, we have developed a resource containing no fewer than 70 speaking and listening activities – so that you don’t run out of activity ideas before everyone has mastered the developmental stepping stones linked to Speaking and Listening for the EYFS Statutory Framework.
These enjoyable and productive play activities help children to develop the skills needed to listen, understand, express themselves, and enjoy language. The vital communication skills covered in this book will not only provide children with the language skills they will need to succeed at school, but they will also enable them to develop friendships and the ability to work cooperatively.
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You can find out more about Speaking and Listening Activities for the Early Years on our website.
On a windy day go outside with the children and watch streamers blowing. Ask the children whether they can see and feel the effects of the wind on their faces and clothes. Watch the trees and plants move in the wind.
This is just one of the activities that can be found in the series of worksheets that we are giving away, free of charge, from the popular volume “Science and Technology for the Early Years (2nd Edition)”. Other activities include:
Science and Technology for the Early Years (Edition 2) contains 120 science and technology activities for use in the Foundation stage, along with ideas for designing resource areas to stimulate purposeful play. The activities are clearly laid-out with the Purpose, Resources and Safety points given, as well as ‘Challenges’, which can be used to provide a focal point for each activity.
Free: speaking and listening resources for Early Years
And before we go any further may I stress that the resources we are offering are completely free of charge. There is no trickery; no requirement to buy or anything like that.
Our aim is simply to show you what is contained in our volume “Speaking and Listening Activities for the Early Years”. The activities are available directly from me – all you have to do is drop me an email.
And having got the worksheets, you can re-use them as often as you wish.
The activities in question come from a series that is designed to aid the development of speaking and listening skills for children aged between two and five years and in each case the work is linked to the Statutory Framework for EYFS.
Through these activities the children who use them will gain the skills they need to succeed at school and to help them develop friendships and the ability to co-operate.
Each lesson in the series is complete in itself and includes such topics as adding descriptions to nouns, saying hello and saying goodbye, learning opportunities linked to early learning goals, learning polite speech, objects which naturally go together, and so on.
In the free lessons we focus on helping children understand the issue of friendship, and how friends can be made. These practical activities involve children having to make friends and share within a totally safe and controlled environment.
For a link to download these lessons free of charge, please visit this webpage.
If you would like to see details of the book from which these activities come from – please take a look at Speaking and Listening Activities for the Early Years on our website.
You can order the Speaking and Listening Activities for the Early Years on our website for £18.50 as a printed book, £12.99 as an e-book or both for a discounted price of £22.40.
For example, ask the children to fill several plant pots with potting compost and plant seeds or cuttings. Water them and place transparent, colourless plastic bottles which you have cut in half over some of the pots to form mini greenhouses. Explain to the children why you are going to cover some of the pots and leave others uncovered. Otherwise treat all the pots the same: give them the same quantities of water and keep them in the same place, so that they get the same amount of light and heat. Every day observe what has happened to the plants and to the plastic bottles. As an extension activity the children could measure the temperature in the plastic bottles and in the room.
Afterwards talk with the children about which plants have grown the fastest and why that might be. Talk about how plants need warmth to grow and that they grow more rapidly in a warm atmosphere. The plastic bottles have a film of condensation on the inside which helps to keep the plants moist.
Further details about this activity can be found here.
This is just one activity out of many in Gardening: Activities for 3 – 5 year olds, published by Brilliant Publications.
For more information or to order Gardening: Activities for 3 – 5 year old for just £6.50, visit https://www.brilliantpublications.co.uk/book/gardening-102
