Board book with noises Activity
Board books are an experiential learning opportunity, introducing baby to handling a book with minimal damage to the book (from tearing or chewing). Stories that encourage sound (such as ‘moo’ for a cow picture) makes reading even more fun.
Why do it?
- Baby will enjoy sharing a book where each page has an interesting sound for the grown-up to make.
- With repetition, baby begins to associate a sound with the picture of the animal or thing that makes it.
- Baby and grown-up are sitting close together and sharing attention.
How to do it
- Get a ‘board’ book with animals, or kinds of transport or anything that makes a noise
- Baby and parent need to be comfortable.
- Baby may want to turn pages — this is fine, it’s play!
- Mum or dad can make the noise that goes with the page they’re looking at with baby.
- When baby goes to turn the page, say, ‘Turn the page’, so the action and the words happen together.
- Joining a library is a very good idea to access lots of different books for free.
Using more reo Māori
| Te reo Māori | English |
|---|---|
| Māku e pānui tētahi kōrero ki ā koe | Shall I read you a story? |
| Kei hea te pukapuka? | Where is the book? |
| Titiro ki ngā pukapuka | Look at the books |
| Hurihia te whārangi | Turn the page |
| Titiro ki ngā kararehe | Look at the animals |
| Kei t e kī te ngeru meow | The cat says meow |
| Kei te kī te kuri woof! | The dog says woof! |
| Kei te kī te manu - tweet tweet | The bird says tweet tweet |
| He kau tēnei | This is a cow |
| He aha te tangi o te kau? | What sound does the cow make? |
| He hipi tenei | This is a sheep |
| Ko ‘baaaa’ te tangi o te hipi | The sheep says ‘baaaa’ |
| Titiro mai, he aha tēnei? | Look here, what’s this? |
| He waka tūroro tēnei | This is an ambulance |
| Titiro mai, he aha tēnei? | Look here, what’s this? |
| He waka tūroro tēnei | This is an ambulance |
| He waka toparere | A helicopter |
| Whakarongo | Listen |
| Rongo | Hear |
| Kei te rongo ahau i | I hear a |
