How would you include a four your old Chinese boy into your nursery?

How would you include a four your old Chinese boy into your nursery?

by: funkky - 07-11-08 05:38

How would you include a four your old Chinese boy into your nursery? He has no understanding of English language and his parents are not fluent speaker of English language but they understand English.
Do you think the young child can be included in the British Early Years education system? If Yes, how? If No, why? Would practitioners take into account that the child is not used to play based curriculum into meeting his needs?

by: Maestro

This seems a very odd question, is it for an assignment?

by: Twinkle22

Agreed sounds like an assignment question to me! But in my experience (similar situation with Filipino and Slovakian children) we used this as an opportunity for the other children to learn about a new culture as well as including the foreign words for 'hello' and 'good morning' at circle time. The parents of the children we looked after were grateful that we were showing an interest in their country/culture and in turn helped us by providing materials for displays and topics. We found that with a little bit of effort on the parents and settings part the child settled well and played alongside the others well. Even soon learning English phrases and songs!

by: jennie

i work in an internationl nursery in vietnam, i have 17 children fro 3-4 years old in my class and at them begining of the school year over half of them had never heard english before. most of the parents have basic english but it can be very limmited. at the begining of the year the whole class learnt hello and goodbye in all the native languages of the children, we also had the parents write hello in their own language (and equivilent english letters for the japanese/chinese/korean) we put all the hellos on the wall and practiced them every morning. each childs parents wrote down in their own language words that the children says most often such as toilet and drink so that we could atleast understand their most physical needs. we tought both the children and parents a few baby sign signs which they use at home while speaking their own language and at nursery we use the same sign but say the word in english this really help to get the children started with the english language. now 3 months on most the children chatter away in english at least some of the time and every week they seem to be learning more and more. the baby signing was really effective and even helped some of the parents!