We sang a variety of nursery rhymes that involved physical movement such as head, shoulders, knees and toes, hokey cokey and I’m a little teapot. Head, shoulders, knees and toes is a great rhyme to warm up to as well as getting to know your body parts. Then we followed by the hokey cokey, this is an excellent rhyme as it gets the whole body moving whilst having fun. Finally to finish off we had I’m a little teapot to cal, the children down as it was time for free play.
P2.2
I played a game with the children called the bean bag game. This was to promote the children’s self reliance and self esteem. The advantages of this game are that the children learn to realise that they are good at certain things or that they may excel in certain areas. The children don’t just learn about how well they do in school, but about activities, relationships and other things like siblings. If they realise that they have done something good such as helping their parent with the chores e.g. vacuuming, then they feel a sense of achievement and fulfilment. This will help boost their self esteem.
However there can be improvements made to this game as I would suggest as an alternative, each child could toss the beanbag. They could choose to tell another child something about them they think is good. Another suggestion would be to get parents involved
In the nursery I was involved in promoting the children’s physical development through nursery rhymes. The advantages of this activity are that it is fun for all children and they also get to choose their own songs. This activity promotes the children’s physical development because it gets the children motivated and moving their whole bodies. The hokey cockey is a great song to use as you using then entire body and keeping active. I would improve this activity by using a wide range of songs and rhymes such as cha cha slide.
P2.3
The activity to promote the children’s self reliance and self esteem was a very effective way of building their self esteem, as the children will feel good about themselves. They also know that they have done something that someone is proud of. The most important aspect of this activity that I tried to teach the children was that they all have something to be proud, thus developing their self reliance and self esteem.
I think that using nursery rhymes and songs to promote physical development is effective because the children enjoy the activity as well as getting their bodies moving and motivated to getting the children active.
Task 2
P2.4
I gave positive support but I was also sensitive about the child’s needs, as comforted a child
Child was playing with a doll and child B snatched it off her. Child A started crying, I saw this so I went over to comfort her. I asked child A what had happened, she told me so we went over to child B to ask what she had done and she told the truth, I praised her for doing so, but I then said we should share and play together so child A and child B went off to play together.
This comforted the child because she got her doll back but also learnt to share with other children as well. I would do this again because I thought it was very effective way of dealing with an upset child.
P2.5
I am going to evaluate my own personal learning. I learnt that children get upset easily and it isn’t easy to comfort them. I also learnt that I learn through visual. I need to see something happen before I can do it confidently. To comfort a child I observed a practitioner to see how they would handle it and how the children react. I then did something similar to child A. This was effect for my learning style.