Story Time a Favourite Time at Ikhayalethemba
Jacqueline
Kennedy once said, “There are many little ways to enlarge your
child's world. Love of books is the best of all.”
This love
of books is something we are focusing on developing with the children at
Ikhayalethemba. Each day we read stories and give the children time to look
at books and practise their reading.
It’s amazing how in such a short time they’ve developed the ability to
sit and read together for half an hour, a pretty good effort for some of our
three and four year olds. It’s also great to see how caring the children are
being with the books and taking time to share their books with the toddlers
and babies. “Hairy MacLeary from Donaldson’s Dairy” is currently the
favourite story, luckily there’s a whole series that we can read!
Reading
is so important for our children. It
opens their eyes to the world and helps them understand themselves and their
own world. For our children in
particular, it exposes them to the English language, what better way to learn
English than through a good story! Research has shown that reading to
children helps them to become better readers themselves and most importantly
exposes them to a broad vocabulary which is essential to their development as
literate adults.
We can’t
underestimate the importance of reading to children and so when we have
volunteers reading to our children each and every day, we know that we are
helping to develop a love of reading.
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