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X-WR-CALDESC:Wimmera Libraries (Horsham Rural City Council)
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260527T103000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260527T233000
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SUMMARY:HORSHAM: Wriggle and Read
DESCRIPTION:Active literacy, music and movement for busy toddlers.\nWriggle and Read has been specifically designed with your toddler’s developmental needs in mind, and aims to empower parents with ideas and strategies to continue the fun and learning at home.\nEach session includes a body and vocal warm-up, so your toddler can shake their sillies out, and play around with vocal sounds. (Phonemic awareness, or the ability to hear the smaller sounds that make up words, is one of the key skills in reading.)\nThis is followed by a songs and rhymes segment, where you and your child can enjoy all the childhood classics you know and love, while your toddler practices fine and gross motor movements and actions.\nAfter that, your friendly neighbourhood librarian will read an “active literacy” book–because reading doesn’t need to be a quiet, sitting down activity, it can be loud, exciting, jumping around activity! This helps restless toddlers develop a love for books and reading.\nThen, the toddlers and their grown-ups can enjoy making music together, as each week we explore a different percussion instrument.\nNext, each family gets a copy of the same book, to read along with the librarian. You and your busy toddler can practice “Conversational Reading ( https://education.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/3545331/3A-Conversational-Reading-Booklet.pdf )“, talking and interacting about all the things you see in the book.\nAnd finally, each session concludes by exploring a different movement prop, and all the myriad creative ways you can play with simple objects: balls, bean bags, tubes, scarves, a parachute, a giant scrunchie, and more.\nWe encourage families to hang around after the session, to get to know one another, and enjoy an informal little ‘playgroup’.\n
URL:https://www.wimmeralibraries.vic.gov.au/events/wriggle-and-read/
CATEGORIES:Early Years,Kids Event,Story Time
LOCATION:28 McLachlan St, Horsham
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