Junior Mammoths — book club for preschoolers: Reading · Speech · Maths
4-6 years
Everything a small person needs when facing the not-so-easy task of mastering two or more language systems — often with limited resources: rare trips to the country of the language being learned, difficulty finding good books for a home library, and not enough time for mums who are already stretched thin.
At the heart of every session is a book: we read aloud together as a group and talk about what we've read. And built around it — everything that gradually prepares children for reading and writing:
- Speech development, vocabulary expansion, retelling skills
- Seamless grammar work — endings, prepositions, prefixed and unprefixed verbs
- First letters — through sensory and active games
- A craft inspired by the book — fine motor skills and hand preparation for writing, and helps children remember what they read
- Maths and logic using Zhenya Katz's method — Nikitin cubes, mosaics, geoboards, logic fish, memory games, attention and spatial thinking
- Phonemic awareness — especially important for children growing up with more than one language
- A little non-fiction and the world around us — simple experiments and conversations about how things work
- Neuro-games, emotional intelligence, board games
- Reading diary — books from the club's library can be taken home
In short, the kind of book you want to hug and read all over again!
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