Teaching kids to work together is very important. They need to be able to do tasks with other children to be able to develop essential life skills like leading, listening to instructions, coordination, problem-solving, critical thinking, and more. The happy reef is a fun teamwork for kids activity for preschoolers to do at home that will also help develop their love for the ocean.
FREE PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS FOR KIDS
Aside from the teamwork for kids activity, you can also give kids oceans-themed worksheets to let them learn more about the ocean. Click the link below to download and print.
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Today it is common to find a society with no principles, values, respect, and love for others. That's why it must be mandatory that parents raise children with principles and values based on an education that provides love, care, security, and respect. Doing this will ensure that children grow up in harmony, but much more importantly, that they do so being happy.
Children need the guidance, approval, and attention of their relatives, especially their parents, to establish their character and personality; how they relate to their environment depends on this. In this training process, compliments play a crucial role. Through them, children feel that their good actions are highlighted and valued, strengthening their self-esteem and confidence.
Doubtless, children learn better when treated with compliments, highlighting their good works and not with reproaches, which generates a loss of self-esteem. Although praise indeed has excellent benefits for integral development, not properly giving compliments can also negatively affect children.
Praising children's good actions brings benefits such as feeling loved and valued, since praising them shows that you are aware of their actions, strengthening confidence and creating a clear concept of themselves.
When children have strengthened their self-esteem and are aware of their abilities, they are motivated to discover new learning, meaning that praise also favors learning.
However, you should note that the compliment must be sincere and should be perceived that way. That implies that you shouldn't exaggerate when doing it, and it has to be honest.
It is appropriate for children to see and feel that their effort to achieve their goals is very important and not only the final result. In this way, children will create awareness that their efforts to meet their goals bring benefits.
THEME: TEAMWORK FOR KIDS
HOW DO WE DO THIS ACTIVITY?
Topic: Compliments during childhood and its benefits. Motor coordination.
Age: 4-6-year-old children
Goal: With this teamwork for kids activity, children will strengthen their motor skills through receiving compliments.
Difficulty level: Advanced. This teamwork for kids activity is made to be done by children autonomously and in a fun way under adult surveillance.
Skills:
- Precision in hand and finger movements
- Motor coordination
- Attention
- Focus
- Self-esteem
- Motivation
- Empathy
- Effort/sacrifice
- Teamwork
- Tolerance/respect
- Perseverance
MATERIALS
- Plastic cups of different colors with sea images stuck on their bottoms
ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT
It is recommended to watch the video before performing the teamwork for kids activity, in this you will find the movements to perform with each of the images, either crossing the arms on the chest, clapping, and putting the hands on the head.
Step 1:
Show the child the movement that is related to the drawing pointed out.
Step 2:
Point at the glasses indicating the child to do the movements.
Step 3:
As the activity goes along, you can increase the difficulty level.
ACTIVITY RESULT
A rhythmic teamwork for kids activity carried out with glasses and drawings of the sea that allow children to develop coordination.
HOW TO DEVELOP THIS TEAMWORK FOR KIDS ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN OF OTHER AGES?
CHANGES FOR CHILDREN UNDER 4 YEARS OLD
You can do this teamwork for kids activity with younger children. To reduce the difficulty level, you can carry out the exercise with slightly larger objects or dolls with bright colors so that children can make the movements or sounds of the animals of their choice. In this way, children will carry out a kindergarten activity appropriate to their development and abilities.
CHANGES FOR CHILDREN OVER 6 YEARS OLD
You can do this teamwork for kids activity with older children. To increase the difficulty level, you can give them several sea dolls on a surface, such as a table. Blindfolded, you will guide them with the voice, and children will guess each sea animal's movements and sounds. In this way, children will carry out a growth mindset activity appropriate to their development and abilities.
VIDEO DESCRIPTION - HAPPY REEF TEAMWORK FOR KIDS
In this teamwork for kids video, you will find the step-by-step of the "THE HAPPY REEF" activity, designed for children 4 to 6 years old. Here they will do a rhythmic activity with glasses and drawings to develop coordination in body movements.
This teamwork for kids activity will allow children to develop precision in hand and finger movements, motor coordination, attention, focus, self-esteem, motivation, empathy, effort/sacrifice, teamwork, tolerance/respect, and perseverance.
The materials children will need to carry out the happy reef teamwork for kids activity are plastic cups of different colors with sea images stuck on their bottoms.
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