Tutor Courses

MY BABY AND ME

MY BABY AND ME

For parents to have an opportunity to explore the 8 key messages/themes.

Baby Library Activity: Parents select book from library for home saying why they chose that particular book?

Home Activities:

Parents watch ‘Watch ‘Read, Speak, Sing: Your baby and early literacy’
Parents look at video ‘Still face experiment’ and use to open discussion next class about importance of face-to-face time for baby

Group feedback from videos and reading to baby
Tutor introduces the idea of ‘Mirroring’ as learning (use factsheet)
Activity: Tutor takes photos of mother and baby smiling/face-to-face together for memento book-Tea/coffee break –
Parents and tutor set up WhatsApp group to share photos

Baby Library: Parents choose a book for baby and tutor models reading with baby

Home Activities: Notice your baby/child response to smiles from you and other family members

Group feedback from last week
Exploring touch together
Activity: Touch awareness play with baby to stimulate baby’s senses, followed by discussion on importance of connecting to baby though holding and touch/learning about boundaries. Using basic hand massage in pairs, parents share their own responses to touch. Follow-up with practicing this with their babies (Factsheet: Touch and learning about boundaries)

Baby library: Parents choose a book to share with their babies at home (tutor informally models sharing books with baby)

At home with Baby: Make time to notice your babies responses to touch and gentle massage and share with group next week.

Group Feedback from last session
Exploring objects and textures together
Activity 1: A tutor guided mindfulness-style exploration of selection of objects with parent and baby, followed by discussion around how babies learn through exploring their environment in relationship.
Activity 2: Parents select from several textured objects for inclusion in their memento book

Baby Library: Parents choose a ‘touch and Feel’ book for their baby to share at home

Home Activities: Parents watch You Tube clip in preparation for next week: Baby talk from first sounds to first words.

Group feedback and tutor input (using Factsheet) around language development in babies and young children: importance of parent talk, including baby in conversations, awareness of rich word environment

Activity: Experiment: Practice the 3 Ts: Tune in, Talk, Take turns

At home with Baby: Use phone to record/video parent/baby ‘conversation’ or baby-talk remembering the 3 Ts

Baby library: Parents choose a book to share with their babies at home (tutor informally models sharing books with baby)

Feedback and Reflection: Parents share their baby recordings.
What music does for the brain: Rhythm and right/left brain development (use factsheet/quiz)

Activity: Parents make shakers to accompany song in memento-book

Baby library: Parents choose a rhyming book to share with their babies at home

At Home: Make time for rhymes and song together. Does your baby have a favourite rhyme or song?

Group feedback.
Activity: Sensory and embodied play with baby. Tutor pre-prepares a trail indoors (natural materials/different textures/varied terrain etc.) or if possible outdoors. Follow this with discussion about developmentally appropriate play and play materials (toys) using factsheet: (What Play does for children)
Tea/coffee and scone break

Baby library: Parents choose a book to share with their babies at home

Feedback from last session
Discussion on how fine motor and gross motor skills have to be practiced for healthy development and learning (brain development fact sheet here)
Activity 1: Parents make print of their baby’s hand or foot for personalised book
Activity 2 : Parents do ‘baby yoga song’ movements in book

Baby library: Parents choose their last book. Parents fill out Feedback Forms. Follow this up with closing circle.