Dear Parents,

Welcome back to school! We are in term 2 now. We are happy to see our children’s progress during term 1.

During this term, the goals of the children’s social and emotional development are that the children will learn to maintain their routines and learn how to interact with other children in a positive manner. For the new students, they will learn to adapt with new routine. For all these aspects, we need your cooperation to bring your child to school on time. It helps the process of getting used to a routine.

Regarding our International Primary Curriculum, this term children will be very excited about learning activities such as using puppets, through many stories. They will have opportunities to enjoy and explore many experiences through storytelling, music, and dance. It will develop their language and cognitive development. They also will have fun learning of Math, such as color, shapes, and position.

To reach the best potential and results, we need your cooperation to be actively involved in the process by maintaining these habits at home. We also ask you to read stories before bedtime for your child at home, to foster their love of reading books.
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Let’s start to build the spirit of fun of learning for our children!

Tips to Encourage Toddler’s Language Development

Communication and Early Language Skills of Eighteen Month Old:

• Says up to twenty words
• Understand most nouns
• Participates in nursery rhymes and songs
• Talks in jargon
• Says “no”
• Uses their own name
• Imitates the last word of phrases heard
• Uses words to help have their needs met (e.g. “more”)
• Imitates sounds
• Imitates two word phrases
• Tries to sing and hum the words of songs
• Can hear and discriminate different sounds
• Acknowledges familiar faces in photos
• Starts to identify body parts by pointing
• Can turn pages of a book

Parents are inundated with all kinds of suggestions regarding how to raise a child. Of-ten this may make people feel that unless children have the latest gadgets, their development is going to be delayed. It’s important to remember that for non-fussy toddlers there are plenty of inexpensive play-based ideas to encourage language development.

• Talk to toddlers and include them in family conversations
• Don’t allow older siblings to constantly talk for younger children
• Emphasize and repeat single words for toddlers to imitate
• Simplify language when talking to toddlers, as this helps them to imitate adults
• Use books to teach new words so as to help build language and literacy skills
• Look at simple rip-proof books together (cardboard, fabric or plastic pages), verbally labeling objects on pages
• Make your own books with a simple word and picture on each page (involve toddlers by allowing them to put paste on the back of pictures)
• Model two-word phrases that include words that are already in the toddlers vocabulary
• Sing with toddlers, as music assists language development
• Imitate sounds, actions & words that toddlers make
• Initiate sound play (e.g. farm animal noises, transport noises)
• Provide inexpensive early development toys (blocks, books, stacking cups, cause-and-effect toys, cars, balls, crayons, farm animals, stuffed toys)

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