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Conversations and games
Use a feather and a
blindfold to play the game "Where am I
tickling you?" Let the children name the
body parts where they are being tickled. Make
sure only decent body parts are being tickled
(hint: Only body parts not covered by clothes).
Let the children create a
"me" drawing.
Buy or make a nice growth
chart. Measure all the students, and place
stickers at their corresponding heights on the
growth chart. It is especially nice if you
measure them again at the end of the school year.
Make the children form a
line (at random), and let one of them place
everyone in an ascending line according to
height.
Mention some body parts and
let the children point them out on their own
bodies.
Mention some body parts and
let the children rhyme to these words.
Measuring our height
Let the children in the
circle measure each others' hands. Let them find
another child that has equal size hands.
Play the mirror game:
Put on a relaxing piece of music, have two
children face each other. One child will have to
mirror the movements of the other. After a while,
let them trade places.
Hear-, smell- and tasting-games are always
fun.
Where am I? Have the children shut
their eyes. The teacher will make subtle sounds,
and the children will have to point in the
direction where the sounds came from.
Have the children remove
their shoes. Create a pile in the middle of the
circle. Then, send one of the children out of
the classroom for a moment, and when make him or
her match the shoes with the owners. When this
is too difficult, let the children remove one
shoe only, this will make the matching exercise
easier.
Lay out a roll of wallpaper of some tables.
Let some children outline one of the children on
the wallpaper (he or she will have to lie on the
table). All the children will finish the drawing
as accurate as possible, including clothing,
freckles etc.
Who is that?
Blindfold one of the children and put someone
else in front of him or her. Let the blindfolded
person guess who's in front of him/her by
touching.
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