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Nursery Rhymes Book

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Nursery Rhymes Book

£14.99

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Developmental Benefits

Discovery Exploration

Language Development

Motor Skills

Developmental Benefits

Nursery Rhymes Book

Heightens curiosity and encourages exploration.
Even young babies love to learn about the world through exploration. Kicking and waving their arms while lying in their cot can lead them to discover that a kick can make a banging sound. Exploration and play are closely linked in infants where, for example, discovering that a toy makes a noise leads to infants repeating the action that made the noise. Babies learn a great deal through repetition. Once babies are either crawling or walking their mobility gives them more opportunities to explore their world.
Babies need to satisfy their curiosity about an object or toy by approaching and handling it. Adults can influence an infant’s confidence about the world by encouraging and smiling at them when they approach an unfamiliar object or toy. Babies can show uncertainty about a new toy and in order for them to confidently explore and discover it they need the emotional reassurance from their parent or caregiver. The confidence to explore and discover new things develops during infancy and creates a healthy curiousity about the world throughout childhood.

Introduces the alphabet, letter sounds and vocabulary.
Babies start to babble at an early age and this can be seen as the first signs of language. They are predisposed to pick up the sounds of the language that they hear around them. Adults can facilitate babies’ language development by playing with them, focussing on particular toys, reading books and naming everyday objects. The more babies are exposed to language the faster they will begin to pick up it up. There are social skills involved in language acquisition such as realising that it is necessary to wait until the other person has finished speaking. Babies begin to learn about conversational turn-taking from an early age; if a baby is babbling the adult waits for a pause and then talks to the baby. Babies learn to take turns even before they are using words. Social interaction is important for language development and turn-taking games are a fun and educational way for babies and young children to learn.<br/ > Young children also need to practice their language skills. Toys that name alphabet letters and everyday words satisfy young children’s need for repetition and rehearsal when practicing words and sounds. For instance, young children can press a button repetitively to hear the same sound or word again. Babies and children learn a lot through repetition and pick up words rapidly in this way. Once children begin to read their vocabulary expands enormously.

Encourages fine motor skill development.
An infant’s growth and development in the first year of life is rapid. Many movements that young babies make are in preparation for the next stage of their development. When young babies watch a mobile they are constantly moving their head, arms, legs and even their mouths in response to the movement of the toy. Sound and movement attract a baby’s attention; if a toy is placed almost within reach of babies their movements become more animated. Bath toys provide opportunities to develop and use motor skills to great effect. For example, a young baby has greater control over their leg movements than their arms. You will often see young babies in a bath reaching with their legs towards a floating toy and kicking. All these movements strengthen muscles in readiness for the next stage - walking.<br /> As babies develop they become more adept at grasping objects. Young infants learn to grasp an object, for instance a cube. The grasping, at first, is quite clumsy but through repetition, and across time, infants become adept at grasping and develop fine motor skills. Infants first use the ulnar grasp where their fingers close against the palm when trying to hold an object. Within another month they are able to move the object from hand to hand. After the first year, infants adopt the ‘pincer grasp’ where they use their thumb and index finger to grasp even very tiny objects. Shape sorters help infants to fine tune their visual perception and hand coordination. Soon infants are building towers with two cubes; this also requires fine coordination skills. As the child grows computer games have been shown to help with hand and eye coordination. Spatial skills can also be enhanced when playing games that require concentration, quick responses and finely tuned motor skills.

Best for ages:

3 to 24 Months

Highlights

6 illustrated pages of interactive nursery rhymes to read and sing-along to. With sound effects, phrases and light-up buttons.

Description

Classic, best-selling nursery rhymes book featuring 6 popular rhymes, including Hey Diddle Diddle, Humpty Dumpty and London Bridge. 6 pages feature beautifully illustrated popular nursery rhymes to read and sing-along to. Fun sound effects, phrases and light-up buttons encourage baby to interact. Develops early language skills, manual dexterity and promotes early reading concepts. Hard plastic pages are designed to be durable and easy to clean so baby can play over and over again.

Product Number: 80-064703
AAA Batteries Required

Nursery Rhymes Book Manual

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Consumer Reviews

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Leanne, Pilmoor

13-Apr-2014

These books are great ive actually just found a few in a draw upstairs and got them out to give to my nephew. As my son never really bothered with them. BUT think I'll have to wait my 3.5 yr old has taken an intrest in them now

leanne, day

06-Apr-2014

this is a great toy my son loves it he plays with it he loves the colours and flashing lights

sharon, binns

28-Mar-2014

Excellent product yet again teaches learning through play encourages speech

charlotte, woodhead

15-Jan-2014

our little boy thinks this is fantastic

leanne, hithersay

31-Dec-2013

my little one lived this product it made him so exited to dance along

Donna, Morris

31-Dec-2013

Excellent

Rachel, Linfield

27-Dec-2013

My daughter is a big lover of books this was one of the first book she had. Has good nursery rhymes in her favourite is wheels on the bus.

Abdullah, Inayat

26-Oct-2013

Excellent first book for infant. My baby girl is very happy :)

Mary, Igoe

26-Aug-2013

My son loved this. Only down side I could think of is it uses batteries rather fast.

eloise , simpson

19-Aug-2013

I think this is a fantastic little book full of nursery rhymes. my little girl loves it and its easy for us to take with us to places if she wants to play with something whilst out. it keeps her amused for ages.

Danielle, Maloney

05-Aug-2013

This has been a fantastic product for my little girl and really durable. The nursery rhythms keep her entertained for ages and doesn't break. The bright colours and pictures keeps her attention and with the big tabs at the sides she can easily turn the pages.

Sally, Cleminson

31-Jul-2013

Bought as a present for my son

Erreen , Riyaz

15-Jul-2013

My son isn't old enough to enjoy this toy independently

stephanie, lewis

20-Jun-2013

We have this to out daughter at 11months old. This product is great for hand eye co ordination

jenny, griffiths

09-Jun-2013

Jake loves the bright pictures and the songs. I love the fact that it is wipe clean. Didn't think much of the singing voice and didn't recognise all the tunes played. Jake has another vtech book that I think is better than this one. Not as good value for money as I had hoped.

Elaine, Elliott

27-Apr-2013

Got this as a stocking filler when he was nearly four

Julie, Sinclair

02-Apr-2013

This is a great little toy and very durable. It takes all the knocks and bumps and is wipe clean as every page is plastic. My daughter loves this book and the flashing arrows in the centre. We read the book in one direction then read it back the way to get the other songs. The pages are bright and colourful and the noise volume is perfect.

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