In local Nurseries
Classes in your local day nurseries are built around a developing curriculum. Music monkeys teachers work with the nursery staff to deliver the essential requirements of the EYFS curiculum. Using phonics within songs to help develop your childs language and communication skills. Working with music using beats, rhythms, rhymes and timing helps to develop literacy and numeracy skills later on in your childs development. The whole programme is designed to be fun so that the children enjoy learning and will want to carry on this development as they move through their education.
For a list of official government objectives relating to Music Monkeys classes see below.
- Children will learn to recognize sets of rhyming words in songs, speech, and poetry
- Children will learn to recognize sets of words that begin with the same sound in songs, speech, and poetry.
- Children will learn to discriminate between words that begin with the same beginning sounds and those that with different beginning sounds.
- Children will learn to segment words into onset and rime.
- Children will learn to identify initial consonant sounds and the letters that represent those sounds.
- Children will learn to recognize the lower-case letters of the alphabet when seeing the letters in print.
- Children will learn t recognise vowels as a subset of letters.
- Children will learn to pronounce the correct consonant sound when seeing the letter associated with that sound.
- Children will learn to identify the correct consonant letter when hearing the sound associated with that letter.
- Children will develop social skills during non-competitive activites
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