Language Development

After reading a favourite story, act it out together — your child becomes the main character and relives the plot.

Sing Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, Wheels on the Bus, and Five Little Ducks back to back — non-stop movement and language.

Sing nursery rhymes with matching actions and movements — active learning through music and play.

When your toddler says a word, you add one more — 'car' becomes 'fast car!' — gently expanding their sentences.

Point at each animal in a board book, make the sound, and wait for baby to try.

Move like different animals across the room.

Bring a paint colour chart on an autumn walk and match leaves to the closest colour swatch.

Echo your baby's babbles and extend them into real words — a conversation that builds language from the very first sounds.

Pick one new word each morning and weave it through the day — building vocabulary through repetition and play.

Create a simple homemade book together from scratch, from the story idea to the illustrated cover.

Build a story together one sentence at a time, with each person contributing the next part.

Act out emotions without words and guess what the other person is feeling to build emotional literacy.

Draw a map of an imaginary land together, naming places and inventing the stories that go there.

Hunt around the home for objects beginning with a target letter sound — phonics learning in disguise.

Create new characters by combining features from different animals, people, and creatures.

Use simple sock puppets to act out social scenarios from different characters' points of view.