Careful! English in sight!: How to work social skills?

How to work social skills?

The development of social skills is an essential part of the daily routine in Infants.
Some examples:

Greetings and goodbyes: Say good morning, good afternoon, hello and goodbye or ask: how are you?

Here, I have some flashcards which I made to work wuth children the different greetings

But, some greetings are a bit difficult to learn by the chidren, they are good morning, good afternoon, good evening and good night. They are difficult because you can say one or the other depends of the time of the day. So for that I made flashcards to help children and a fun game of greetings. It's like a "Oca game" you have to through the dice and you have to move you counter saying the correct greeting depend of the imagen represent the morning, the afternoon or the night...

The next activity is to work the same greetings, so I made a little poster with the four pictures (morning, afternon, evening and night) and children have to stick the correct word in the correct picture. Doesn't matter if the children are wrong, they can use it many times they want because I used velcro to stick the words

Feelings:

· Express feelings: happy, sad, cross, angry, hungry, shy…

· Express love for family and affection

· Value the friendship and help of others

· Play different roles, express emotions with drama, participate with pleasure at celebrations and parties.

Feelings flashcards to show to the children:

This is an activity to work emotions or feelings. There are many different faces, and children have to stick the feeling word in the face correctly

Learn emotions video

Behavior patterns: Understand dining –room rules, say “please”, “thank you” and “sorry”, accept the concept of winning/losing when playing a game, avoid discrimination and recognize difference between people, learn to choose and make decisions…

Example: We can make a nice rules’ posters with children using Kidspiration or smartboard, and then we can print it and hang it up in the class to remember all the rules!

Behave Video:

Personal hygiene and health:

Understand and respect dining-room rules, enjoy eating fruit, understand a balance diet, be able to dress and undress themselves and understand the daily routines…

Example: I made this Healthy-diet activity to practise with children:

The food song:

Do you like...? Song

Wash your hands,face,hair song

Sharing and participating: Realize that the classroom equipment belongs to everyone, share and take turns, enjoy tiding up, help, take pleasure in giving presents.

Example: We can tidy and organize the classroom in this activity: