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Activities for social and emotional learning

a toddler drawingThe unique world of Waybuloo helps young children develop their social and emotional learning. Here are some ideas from Stephanie Cooper, educational specialist and editor of Waybuloo Magazine, to try at home:

Sharing

  • Put together some fruity treats for your family. Choose the fruit that you know each person will like and arrange it in a bowl for them. Make sure that everyone has some.

  • Create a drawing or a painting to give to someone special. When it's finished, write a special message on the picture especially for the person they're going to give it to. Ask your child to think of what to say, and write it down for them.

    • Listening

  • Play Simon says. Touch your ears then touch your grown-up's ears. Touch your nose, then touch your grown-up's nose and so on.

  • Play a simple Hide and Seek game. Tell your child where you've hidden something at home, and see if they can go and get it. Then, see if they can explain where they've hidden something for you to find.

    • Confidence

  • Make an 'All About Me' book. Together with your child, collect photos and drawings done by them to pop into a scrapbook. Start writing down a few of the special things that your child says that make you both laugh and put these into the book too.

    Add photos from when they were a baby and include photos of where they live as well as family, other important people and pets. Take some time to get the book out and look at it together. When you go away on holiday, collect things from your time away and put those into the book too.

    Looking after things

  • Play pass the teddy. Carefully pass the teddy or another special soft toy from person to person and when the music stops, the person holding him has to give the teddy an extra special hug.

  • Plan a special tea for each other and invite someone you know, or your child's favourite toy. Make place names, and make sure there's enough for everyone to eat and drink so that each guest feels really special.

  • Play pass the smile - just take it in turns to smile at each other.

    • Waybuloo is the first pre-school magazine to help children learn about feelings and understand emotions. Through their engagement with De Li, Nok Tok, Lau Lau and Yojojo (the 'Piplings') in the land of Nara, the magazine aims to help a child's development in a number of ways:

    • Feeling Good - helping children to understand how to care about themselves, their world and other people;
    • Communication - having fun sharing stories, making choices, thinking and talking about feelings and emotions;
    • Being Creative - confidently making things for themselves and others;
    • Finding Out - discovering more about things in the natural world and learning to appreciate them;
    • Physical Development - keeping fit and healthy with the Piplings, eating fruit and vegetables and trying yogo (a simple, gentle form of yoga).



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