It has been an absolute pleasure to welcome the children back to Nursery, there have been happy faces all around

 

This week in IEYC we have been talking about pets.  Our own pets, our favourite pets and how to look after them.   We have also set up a vets in the Nursery and there is lots of co-operation and negotiating going on during role play.

 

Please upload any pictures you may have of your beloved animals to your child’s learning journal.  We can print these off and use them in our floorbook.

 

The children have been finding environmental print in the Nursery on junk models and logos printed off from the internet.

 

Environmental print can include the print from digital technology, posters, controls on household appliances, logos and designs on clothing, road signs, food labels and shop signs.

 

Children typically read print from their environment before reading print in books (Clay, 1993; Goodman & Altwerger, 1981).

 

Children recognise famous logos at home, at nursery, at their friend’s house and while travelling it is an important step in learning to read print.

 

At home children can identify their favourite box of cereal, tv show or game. While in the car (or walking) they can see and learn to identify restaurants and shops by their signs and logos.  If you are out an about it would be great if you could take pictures of the print you and your child discover and upload it to their learning journal.

 

Environmental print can stimulate talk about literacy as children ask questions.

It can prompt children to identify letters in signs that also occur in other words that are important to them such as their own name.