Early Learning Resources

Helping my Child Learn Two Languages

Helping my Child Learn Two Languages - (PDF)

These Utubes from St George Child and Family Interagency in partnership with St George Paediatric Speech Therapy Services have tips to help your child speak and read in two languages. Below are links to the translated Utubes. 

Arabic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLRbNO_T58Q&feature=youtu.be

Bangla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izz9KhX8vSU

Chinese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SmU4MrcE14

Love, Talk, Sing, Read, Play, Flipbook

Love, Talk, Sing, Read, Play - (Printable Flipbook)

Ideas to make the most of a child’s early development. Age specific ideas for parents of infants through to 5 years.

Lovely Jubbily Sing-a-long CD - FREE Download

Download and play your very own copy of 'Lovely Jubblies'

Listen to the song online or download the MP3 for FREE.

Lovely Jubbily - MP3

English
MP3 1.3MB

Poster - PDF Download

Arabic

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Chinese

English

Khmer

Vietnamese

Free Countdown to School Calendar - 2015 - 2016

Download and print your very own Countdown to School Calendar with tips and reminders on how to help your kids get ready for school, supplied by Families NSW. Click the image to download the ready-to-go PDF file, or alternatively, if you want to edit your own, and add your own images, use the Publisher version linked below. 

Editable version - Please note, you will need to have Microsoft Publisher installed in order to edit this calendar.

• Early Words Tip Sheets - 

               Tips sheets and Book lists to help parents prepare their children before school for the world of reading and writing.

• Lets Read Website -

                 Let’s Read promotes the importance of reading with children from birth. It provides age-specific resources to support families reading with their children. The resources are developed for children aged from 4 months, 12 months, 18 months 

• Conversations with babies - 

Fact sheet for parents on language and communication development in babies through to 3 years. Helpful contacts also included.

• Play is all about learning 0-2yrs - 

A guide to play for parents of 0-2 year olds

• Play is all about learning 2-5yrs - 

A guide to play for parents of 2-5 year olds

• Play and Learn

              A series of 8 Tip Sheets with ideas for learning through play. The Vietnamese and Arabic translated versions can be found in the Other Languages Early     Learning section of this website. 

• Reading with Young children - 

The why, when, how of reading with young children.

• Reading with your child at home - 

Ideas for parents about how to help their child with reading and literacy skills at home

• Literacy as part of everyday life - 

Ideas for parents on how support to incorporate early literacy into day to day living.

• Helping your child with shapes and objects - 

A guide to how children learn about spatial ideas.

• Helping your child with arithmetic - 

Ideas for parents to use at home to help their children learn about addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

• Music Experiences for Young children - 

The benefits of making music a regular part of a young child’s daily routines.