I played a game with the children called the bean bag game. This was to promote the childrens 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

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Unit 2        Unit 2 PER diary 

Unit 2: Development from conception to age 16 years

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I was involved with promoting the children’s self reliance and self esteem as I carried out an activity called the bean bag game.

On a large piece of poster board, draw a 3 x 3 matrix. In each square, write or draw a picture of an aspect of the child's life. For example, you may include school, chores, relationships with siblings, activities, and friends. Taking it in turns, give a child a beanbag and have them toss it onto the poster board. For the square that it lands in, he should tell you something good about himself. If it lands in the school square, he may tell you about a subject in which he excels, a test on which he did well, a time that he stood up for himself-- anything that he feels makes him special.

I was also involved in promoting the children’s physical development through dancing and singing.

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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.

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