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-Encourage your child to make downward vertical movements with their arms as this will help them with writing. -Making anticlockwise circles will also be beneficial, this could be running in circles, or cycling or even scooting. -To improve your child’s pincer grip for fine motor skill development, encourage them to pick up small objects like rice or beads. Pegging clothes on a line or card. Threading with laces or ribbon. _ Literacy - Read to and with your child every day. - Sing rhymes and songs. - Give your child the chance to handle books and see different types of print, e.g newspaper, leaflets, signs, packaging. - Provide your child with pencils, crayons, paints, brushes and things to draw and make marks. - Point out signs in the environment and talk about the first letter/sound - Point out familiar signs and their meanings. - Talk about your favourite stories and the characters who is the hero, the villain? Why do they like this story?

Understanding of the World -Talk about your family’s heritage and history. Think about your family tree and discuss life events weddings, celebrations, religious festivals etc -Involve your child in sorting out rubbish for recycling. Creative Development. - Provide your child with access to paints, crayons, glue, paper anything to help explore their creativity. - Put on some loud music and dance, go crazy! - Do some gardening together, talk about what you’re doing and where our food comes from. - Walk around the area in which you live and talk about what you see –buildings, people, animals and plants. - Sing songs - Mathematics - Count everyday objects such as stars, cars, cats, dinosaurs, fingers, toes anything at all! - Look at numbers in the environment and talk about them, what number is your house? What is your flat number? What number bus can you see? Can you see numbers on the road? - practise writing numbers 0-10 - sing number songs - Cooking with your child is an excellent way to introduce measurement and number. - use language such as bigger and smaller and help your child to understand the difference. - Compare objects of different heights and lengths. -Talk about things that are tall and short, who is tallest in your family? Who is youngest etc…