Here at Williamsburgh we have begun or weekly ‘BookBug’ programme which entails groups of children working with our lead ‘BookBug’ practitioner Carly to partake in singing, games and storytelling which has multiple benefits to the children within the centre.
Take a look at what Carly has been working on developing with the children:
The children are being given the opportunity to explore their understanding of their rights to safety, security and to form relationships. Working in smaller groups is providing the children the opportunity to form strong bonds with staff in turn helping them to feel safe, nurtured and to be ask for help. As well, some of the songs/games encourage co-operative play where children have to opportunity to work with their friends and strengthen emotional bonds with their peers.
Not only is it helping form relationships ‘BookBug’ is improving children’s social skills as some experiences call for turn taking and sharing.
As expected ‘BookBug’ is providing fantastic literacy learning opportunities for our children. The use of puppets, the magic blankets and the special bag is an exciting hook for children and creating a love of reading for them – when ‘BookBug’ makes an appearance children are so eager to read, sing and retell. As well the continuous access to reading, song and rhyme exposes children to loads of vocabulary, letter sounds/phonics, stimulates cognitive learning, communication and responses which over all improves their imagination, talking and listening skills.
All children have the opportunity to attend these sessions and we even have ‘BookBug’ with parents coming up soon. Following the potential success of these sessions we are planning to host these more regularly, so keep your eyes peeled for more dates!
