How Children Learning to Learn

• How To Encourage Good Behaviour To Children

Children quickly learn how to behave when they get positive, consistent guidance from you. This means giving your child attention when they behave well, rather than just applying consequences when your child does something you don’t like.

1. Be a role modelUse your own behaviour to guide your child. 

2. Show the children how you feelTelling your child honestly how their behaviour affects you helps your child see their own feelings in yours.  

3. Catch your child being ‘good’When your child is behaving in a way you like, give your child some positive feedback. Example: ‘Wow, you’re playing so nicely. I really like the way you’re keeping all the blocks on the table’. This works better than waiting for the blocks to come crashing to the floor before you take notice and say, ‘Hey, stop that’.

4. Keep things simple and positiveInstruction should be clear, short and appropriate for your child’s age, so your child can understand and remember them. 

Vocabulary and language development in children at 3-4 years

Children learn a lot of new words by listening to you and other adults and guessing from context. They also learn from new experiences and from listening to stories read aloud. 

Children will learn and use:

• More connecting words like ‘because’, ‘and’ or ‘if’
• More numbers
• Names for groups of things like ‘vegetables’ or ‘animals’
• Family terms like ‘aunty’ or ‘brother’.
• Your child might be able to name basic emotions like ‘happy’, ‘sad’, and ‘angry’.  

Sentences And Grammar In Language Development

• Children is learning more about how to put words together into sentences.

• Children might begin to use more complex sentences that include words like ‘because’, ‘so’, ‘if’ and ‘when’.

• Children will show that they understand the basic rules of language. 

Understanding and Language Development

• When children don’t understand what you say, they might ask you to explain or ask you what specific words mean.

• Children will understand instructions that have more than two steps.

• Children will understand questions most of the time, especially if they’re about something that’s happening right now, or that they can see. And they’ll understand slightly complicated explanations, as long as they can see the results themselves. 

• By four, children might be able to understand and use words to express emotions like ‘happy’, ‘sad’, ‘angry’ or ‘surprised’.

• Children might also know one or more colours and can compare two things, 

Learning In The Early Years

• Children need a stimulating environment with lots of different ways to play and learn. He also needs plenty of chances to practise what he’s learning.
• Babies and young children learn best when they have warm, engaged and responsive relationships with their main carers. So you have a vital role to play in helping your child learn through these early years. 

How Babies And Young Children Learn

The parents, other family members and carers – for example, early childhood educators – are the foundation for children's healthy learning and development. Lots of time spent playing and interacting with you and others help your child learn the skills he needs for lifelike communicating, thinking, problem-solving, moving and being with other people.

Children Best By Actively Engaging with Her Environment. 

• Observing things, watching faces and responding to voices
• Listening to sounds, making sounds and singing
• Exploring – for example, putting things in her mouth, shaking things and turning things around
• Asking questions – for example, ‘but why?’
• Experimenting with textures, objects and materials like water, sand or dirt
• Doing things that stimulate all of her senses – touch, taste, smell, vision and hearing.

What Young Children Are Learning

• Self and relationships

Children learn that she’s loved and important. She starts learning to understand her own needs, thoughts, feelings, likes and dislikes. 

• Language and communication

When you talk and listen with children, and read and sing together, you’re helping him learn about language, written and spoken communication, and conversation skills like taking turns and listening.

• Numeracy, literacy, handwriting and music

You help the children build early numeracy skills with everyday counting. 

Children develop early literacy through reading and storytelling, playing simple sound and letter games like listening for words that begin with the same sound, and looking at pictures, letters and words in the environment and in catalogues. 

Handwriting skills develop when you encourage him to draw, scribble and write. 

Writing, helps your child understand the connection between letters and spoken sounds.

Singing, listening to music, and giving her musical instruments to play