Skill: This activity will help your child develop their knowledge of the world around them. Asking questions, helps your child understand how and why things happen.
It is important to encourage your child to investigate and develop their curiosity by asking questions Take your child for a walk in the park or the garden. Get them to safely touch, smell and feel things. Collect some of the things you find such as a leaf or a pebble. Ask your child some questions. What does it feel like? Is it wet or dry? Encourage them to investigate what you have found.
You could read a story linked to a trip out such as Rosie’s Walk. Alternatively, you could press a variety of flowers in between some heavy books, or take some leaf rubbings using white paper and coloured crayons. Ask your child some questions about what they are doing.
It is important to encourage your child to investigate
ReplyDeleteand develop their curiosity by asking questions
Take your child for a walk in the park or the garden.
Get them to safely touch, smell and feel things.
Collect some of the things you find such as a leaf or a
pebble. Ask your child some questions. What does it feel
like? Is it wet or dry?
Encourage them to investigate what you have found.
You could read a story linked to a trip out such as Rosie’s Walk.
Alternatively, you could press a variety of flowers in between
some heavy books, or take some leaf rubbings using
white paper and coloured crayons. Ask your child
some questions about what they are doing.