Things that you can read to your infants
Posted: April 20, 2008Infants love :
1. Action nursey rhymes
2. Imitate actions of children in books
3. Make sounds of animals in books
4. Relate book to real life
5. Like to see babies in books
6. Pick favourite books from the shelf
7. Enjoy the three R’s : Rhythm, Repition, Rhyme
8. Listen to nursey rhymes and Mother Goose verses as they are rocked
9. Fall asleep to nursery songs and lullabies
In the great green room
There was a telephone
And a red balloon
And a picture of -
The cow jumping over the moon.
( from the Goodnight Moon )
Do you know that :
1. Infants see colour and shapes very early in life
2. A child in the womb grows accustomed to her mother’s voice
3. Infants, toddlers and preschoolers understand many more words than they can say
