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| Tell us your stories for our special book,
Draw some pictures for us to take a look.
Make it funny, or make it sad,
Make it the best we’ve ever had.
Make us smile, or make us frown
Make it sensible, or silly as a clown!
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The elephant was to change Tad's life. It was to involve him and his friend, Cissie, in a chase that led from Pennsylvania to Nebraska, by train, flatboat, and steamboat. They were being chased by Hannibal Jackson, who was determined to have the elephant for himself. And how do you hide a large Indian elephant?
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This delightful collection of tales from around the world ....
Hugh Lupton's engaging narrative quickly draws young readers into each story, while Sophie Fatus' quirky illustrations will have children laughing in their seats, ensuring hours of entertainment.....
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| Baby Sign Language
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Some benefits of using the Signing Babes method
- Can strengthen bonds between a parent (or carer) and baby
- Provides a view into your baby's mind and thoughts
- Reduces frustration for baby, plus parent/caregiver by pinpointing a need or desire quickly
- Aids the memory - using actions to learn re-enforces the memory process
- Enables basic communication with the deaf or hard of hearing, plus other signing babies/carers
- Enables basic communication in silence, from a distance and in noisy atmospheres!
- Encourages awareness and understanding of the form of communication used by many deaf and/or special needs persons, thereby working towards inclusion
- Engages parent/carer and baby by encouraging one-to-one interaction
- Encourages an early interest and books and reading
- Possibility of early speech development - research suggests this
- Is a fun and fascinating concept!
Why use it?
Baby Signing can enable you to understand your baby's personality, his or her thoughts and feelings, in ways you may never experience without the use of signs.
It has even been known for babies as young as 6 months old to communicate to their parents/carers when they want to eat or if they want some milk
  
Bath Book Teddy
For more information click here to contact Signing Babes UK.
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| Talk to Your Baby & Baby IQ
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Talk To Your Baby is a campaign run by the National Literacy Trust to encourage parents and carers to talk more to children from birth to three. Talking to young children helps them become good communicators, which is essential if they are to do well at school and lead happy, fulfilled and successful lives.
Communicate through music is a pack for practitioners to encourage musical activities with babies.
Download the special resources pack here
Share books and talk together is a downloadable resource for practitioners, click here
Baby IQ has launched two DVDs – The World Around Us and Baby’s First Word – with entertaining and stimulating pictures and with music from the London Symphony Orchestra. The DVDs show bright and colourful images of objects of interest to babies and young children, accompanied by carefully chosen extracts of classical music. Baby IQ, in using high quality music and images, is stimulating both hearing and sight, giving parents and carers opportunities to verbalise the images, and share the experience in words with their child. Baby IQ says: “We can’t promise to make babies brighter, but we will make them smile.”
Hear all about it by clicking here
See samples of the DVD's here
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| Great Books For Babies & Toddlers!
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Maisy's Favourite Animals
(Maisy S.)
Lucy Cousins
(Illustrator)
A fabulous new
collection of chunky board books starring Maisy and her friends. Join the
inimitable Maisy in her vest and pants before she puts on a variety of her
favourite colourful costumes, ending in her dressing gown and pyjamas. See her
with all her favourite animals milking a cow or riding a horse; her favourite
things - gingerbread, rainbows, Christmas trees; and her favourite toys. The
perfect size for little hands, each book has twenty-two bright and fun pages,
packed with everything Maisy loves!
22 pages (August 6, 2001)
Walker Books Ltd
English
0744544092
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| FEATURED BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR BABIES AND TODDLERS
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Lamaze - Multi-Sensory Clutch Cube
by Learning
Curve
Product Features
- Lamaze Infant
Development System guides you through three key stages of your baby's
development
- Lamaze toys grow with
babies
- Toys are enjoyed in
new ways as the months go by
- With every Stege Two
toy you give The, you help baby to
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- Exploring and
Experimenting
- Fun shapes, sounds and
textures encourage two handed play
- Manufacturer's
recommended age 3 months +
Boxed-product weight: 1.00 Kg
Manufacturer's age: 3 months and
up
Our recommended age: 3 - 24 months
Item model number: LC97221
ASIN: B00008BR9I
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| CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT
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- By the age of one, many children will pick up a pen or crayon and hold it against paper, as if they are going to make mark.
- Dabs and dots develop into light scribbles, backwards and forwards
- By two, many children will be able to copy you as you scribble round and round and soon after, will copy as you draw a vertical or horizontal stroke
- From three, the child begins to draw simple representations of objects in real life
- From five, the art of drawing real objects is practised and from seven, it becomes perfected
- The child will usually draws a person or 'character' as their first real life representation
- When experimenting with colours, children initially tend to use one colour or might mix two to make a dark splodge
- A painting that can take five to ten seconds for a three year old will develop by the age of four into an activity that can absorb the child for several minutes
- When learning to write - you'll need paper and lots of it! You could also invest in a blackboard or a white board.
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| THE MAGICAL WORLD OF CREATIVITY
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- Imagination is not something children are born with - in their earliest exploration of the world, babies are concerned with the material properties of things , investigating them with their senses
- From ten months, they show signs of imitation, and it is from these early beginnings that elaborate games of make believe develop
- Imaginative play plays a crucial role in their intellectual and social development
- Empathy is developed through imaginative play
- Creativity also has its foundations in imaginative play
- When fostering a child's imagination - choose games and activities at the right level
- Suggest and respond to individual interests but try not to take over
- Play yourself - make the dolls or teddies walk, race the toy cars along making loud motor noises
- Set up scenarios for your child by arranging toys in a particular way - active physical play is particularly good for stimulating the imagination
- Give your child versatile toys that allow them to develop their own imagination
- Glove puppets are a great way to act out simple stories
- Junk materials are ideal for creating a world of imagination
- Picture books are essential building blocks for the imagination
- Make the ordinary world around you a magical place! Do this on outings to the shops, the park, the garden etc
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| RESCOUCRES FOR PARENTS OF PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN
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