EDUC 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Social Skills
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Activate background knowledge: generating interest, have children describe animals with adjectives. Have children guess what the adjective will be. Allows you to extend on the knowledge gained through reading: opportunity to generalize to children"s lives and knowledge, describe themselves using the same pattern as the book, draw a picture of animals that re ect them. Play a game of opposites: can be done immediately after or later on in the day or week, creativity. Enjoy creating with different materials, such as nger paint, water colors, tempera, collage, clay: more interested in the process of creating than the product. Intensely interested and committed to own creation and is unlikely to welcome inference. Use drawing and art as a way to tell stories. Enjoy making up rhymes and playing with words. Enjoy different kinds of dramatic play, including macro play with actors and micro play with miniature objects. Aware of own individuality and able to express feelings, needs and desires.
