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Possible Achievements
Activity is fun ★, heart of play is pleasure ✪ drive to repeat mastery
Social engagements (new friends, social skills, manners)
Learning as playing
Self-confidence grows
Observations:you get valuable information about the children as you observe them
Guiding methods
Child centered
child has the oppoturnity to affect how and what he/she is doing
Adults positive and encouraging feedback is important, especially when the child is doing creative activities
Guiding methods
Adult led
The adult who is leading makes almost all the decicions and the children have little power to affect anything
He might show to the children how to do it from start to the end, or just show the end product
He can let the children work alone or as groups
PREPARATION
Prepare the children a day before of the activity by telling them about the coming activity
Prepare enough clay dough for the children
Make sure you have enough equipments: rolling pins, tools to cut and molds
Have some goals to be achieved: getting the children use their imagination and creativity
Give a theme, a picture or use music to inspire them
Think who needs special attention and think what you need for him/her
STARTING THE ACTIVITY
Before the children arrive you prepare the table for them
Put the equipments and the clay dough on table ready for use (you can also use sea shells, grass, leaves, pebbles
as material etc.)
Get the children together who you are going to take for the activity and tell them what kind of work is waiting for them
Instruct them to get their seats and start their work
DURING THE ACTIVITY
You can observe the children the whole time, guide them as little as possible so that they feel like they are the makers of their work
Compliment their ideas and achievements, positive feedback is important
Be fair to everyone and remind them of the importance of sharing (some might start a fight because they want to use the same equipments)
ENDING THE ACTIVITY
You check that everyone has done their work ready
You can tell the children to present their work to the group and tell something about it
When they all are done with the presentations give positive feedback of the group
Then tidy up the work area together
TIDYING UP
All the children who were involved will help with the tiding up
They know where put the equipments but you can help and show where certain parts go
You take the most intriguing parts away, because some children may want to continue to do something with the clay dough
Thank everyone who helped you to tidy up
After they are done with the tidying up, you can tell them to go play with trains or to go outside etc.
+FEEDBACK
You can get the feedback during the activity or after the session
On the next day you can ask was it fun what you did yesterday
By through observations and feedbacks you can evaluate if you need something more to the session or something less
You can give to the children positive stickers on their shirts for good behaviour
THE POSITIVE POINTS ABOUT THE PLAY SESSION
The child can express him/herselfWork as a team memberLearn social skillsUse imagination and creativenessBe proud of the end productLearn during play
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