Din l-istorja ħa tinkoraġixxi lit-tfal sabiex jgħinu lil xulxin u jkunu iżjed ħbieb. Din hija relatata mal-kategorija ta’ “Helping each other”.
Kukku l-kukkudrill
Author: Krista Salerno
Make a face
The children can create any character with the provided different features and accessories.
Make a cake
The children will be given the opportunity to be creative when designing their personalized cake.
Together we can do it!
This activity will strengthen the bond between the children as they will contribute equally in helping one another.
Materials Needed:
- Rope
Method:
- Start by placing the rope on the floor in a Zig-Zag pattern.
- Then explain to the child what the activity is going to be about and mention to the child that they have to keep on walking on the rope until they reach the final spot.
- Encourage the child to hold hands with the adult or the sibling whilst walking on the rope
- Make sure to emphasises about helping each other when travelling from one spot to the other on the rope.
- Praise the child.
Learning points of the activity:
To work together as one team in reaching their goal which is the final part of the rope
To motivate the children to trust and respect one another’s thoughts and opinion and strengthen their relationships
To encourage the children to actively communicate and listen, and to guide each other
To sustain and improve children’s hand and eye coordination and body balance. This will lead the children in developing further their confidence in their body movements.
To enhance children’s spatial awareness
Acting out different hygiene practices
In this activity, the children will be able to identify different hygiene practices so as to promote personal hygiene to the children. This activity will sustain children’s knowledge and skills of responsibility, as they will get to know about the right ways of taking care of themselves.
Materials Needed:
- Matching cards containing different items and physical body features (as presented in the attachment below)
- Chairs (optional)
Method:
- Start by mixing the cards and place them faced down on the table.
- Then encourage the children to pick two cards at a time and if they don’t match, they place them back down.
- You are encouraged to act as co-learner and co-partner and participate in this game with the child. It is very important to remind the child, that this game is not about losing or winning but to have fun.
- After finishing the matching game, notify the child about the rules of the other game of acting out different hygiene practices.
- It is very important to remind the child, that if they don’t guess the right answer, they can try again and not give up.
- The adult needs to make sure to give enough time and chance for the child to display the action, as they might find it difficult to express their thoughts through physical movements only. If the child desires to talk whilst doing the action, let them.
- After finishing the last game, the adult is encouraged to show and tell the child about the right practices of the personal hygiene. It is up to the adult to use any props such as puppets or other resources if needed.
Learning points of the activity:
To develop further their observational and concentration skills as they observe different movements and actions of the other player
To promote cooperation and teamwork skills
To sustain children’s knowledge and ideas with regards to personal hygiene
To foster persistence and resilience in children and to not give up
To develop further children’s skills in particular their responsibility.
To improve children’s physical and body movements in particular their gross motor skills, when they use their body features as a medium to act out the practices. In addition to that, children’s pincer grasp can be developed further when picking up the cards using their fingers.
The very hungry Caterpillar
This story will help the children to understand the life cycle of a butterfly. This will continue scaffold children’s knowledge with regards to this insect.
In-numri bil-Malti ma’ Ġeremija l-Ferrovija
This video can help the children to start learning the names of the numbers in our Native Language.
Recycle Roundup
This game will support children’s knowledge about recycling and encourage them to love and protect the environment.
It-Temp
F’dan il-video it-tfal jkunu jistgħu jestendu l-għarfien tagħħom dwar it-tipi differenti ta’ temp bil-lingwa Maltija. Dan il-video jista’ jintwera f’proġetti bbażati fuq temp u temperatura.
Lady
The children will be able to improve their numeracy skills when counting the dots of the ladybird. This game can connected with the Buncee presentation to develop further their knowledge about insects.
Early Childhood Education 