Ten Tassie babies tour Tasmania!
A colouring-in activity book
The following are links to further learning and lesson plans as well as blank templates and handouts you can use. With the suggestions I have gone through the book page by page providing examples of activities and ideas for lesson plans you can use to keep the learning going.
Keeping the Learning Going!
The following are just suggestions for keeping the learning going, learning should be fun, so whatever sparks your child’s interest, work from there
and build on that!
Obviously there’s no need to do ALL these activities, they are just to demonstrate how learning can take you to so many wonderful places!
Handouts
This link takes you to some handouts I've created to go along with the book.
There are some printable blank templates for the perfect patterns, word searches, crack the codes and lots more.
I've also included some blank colouring-in pages!
For Babies
I have included WHY read to babies and HOW to read to babies, because I am constantly hearing the words - 'Oh she's too young for books' or 'He's only a baby he's not ready for books' - which makes me weep to hear such words! I want to encourage everyone to read to their babies as often as possible!
Literacy and our crazy English Language!
The following pdfs explain just what literacy is, how important it is, and how important it is for creating well-balanced, well-rounded, confident and capable young children. I have also included a document I've called English is Totally Nuts! because it is - it's completely crazy. How anyone learns to read and write in English is completely beyond me!
Children's Literature
Learning About Books - takes a closer at kids' books. Making books with little kids is great fun and make wonderful presents. Make sure you keep as many of them as possible because they're so much fun to look back on
in years to come!
Children's Literature - provides an introduction to the types of books published for young children, focusing in particular on Picture Books.
Finally I have included a list of some of the fantastic picture books available for young children. This is just an introduction but a great place to start.
