NURSERY RHYME BAGS FOR ANTE PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN (06/10/2009)
Wellington Nursery will be introducing Nursery Rhyme Bags to Ante Pre-School Children.

Storysacks have been used very successfully with our Pre-school children for a few years now as part of our literacy home link programme.

In order to extend this programme to our youngest Ante Pre-school children we are launching a range of Nursery Rhyme Bags. Nursery rhymes play a very important part in the development of early literacy skills in children. The Nursery Rhyme Bag is a large cloth bag containing a Nursery Rhyme book with supporting materials which may include: jigsaws, puppets, role play, games and music.

The aim of the Nursery Rhyme Bag is to provide Parents with the opportunity to complement and enhance their child’s early years’ education at home. This home link creates a quality bonding experience where Parents can read to their child and help their child to develop early literacy skills during play activities.

The accompanying article explains more about the importance of rhyme and rhythm and the short video clips show the children being introduced to the Nursery Rhyme Bags.

Nursery rhymes play a very important part in the development of early literacy skills in children. Three key elements within a nursery rhyme are rhythm, rhyme and alliteration.

The rhythm helps the child to break up the words into syllables: Geor-gie Por-gie, pudd-ing and pie.

The rhyme will define the child’s ability of breaking the word into its initial sound (onset) and the end unit, which produces the rhyme, for example w-all, f-all, j-ill, h-ill.

Alliteration is the third useful element to be found in some rhymes, this is a string of words all beginning with the same sound, for example Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling. This will familiarise a sound for the child.

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Video Clip 1: www.wellingtonschool.org/video6.wmv
Video Clip 2: www.wellingtonschool.org/video7.wmv
Video Clip 3: www.wellingtonschool.org/video8.wmv
Video Clip 4: www.wellingtonschool.org/video9.wmv

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