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Presenting the Study of the Adjective Material Description: Adjective Grammar Box, filler Box IIIA, Box of Grammar Symbols, Noun family chart Access to the farm Adjective filler box contents: IIIA: colours, IIIB: Dimension and number The first two presentations can be done with any of the short chains form the bead cabinet and corresponding tickets. …
Introduction The children will have completed a great deal of work with the noun family and will be familiar with the noun box, symbols and impressionistic chart. They will have the impression of the noun as a very solid, stable part of speech.and that the noun is not easily used. The red ball which is …
Material Description: Symbol for the adverb, smaller orange circle and other symbols, grammar box 6 and filler box 6a. Method: Oral Introduction Ask the child to perform a verb and then modify the action with the adverb, for instance ask both children to ‘walk…quickly..slowly’ and then comment on other differences in the way they walked. …
Material Description: Symbol for the conjunction, pink line and other symbols, grammar box 8 and filler box 8a. Method: No oral introduction Activity In the same way as the verb, here one example has no conjunction, but has two sentences, the other example is joined by a conjunction. For example, ‘Do not …
Material Description: Symbol for the preposition, green crescent and other symbols, grammar box 5 and filler box 5a Method: Oral Introduction Take a box of beads, put the beads inside the box, above, by the side of the box, in front to of the box. Activity In the same way as the …
Introducing the Pronoun Material Description: Pronoun grammar Box 7, Filler Box VIIA, symbol box Method: Oral introduction Say to a small group of children,’When I want to talk about something I want to do I don’t have to say my name, I can say, “I can talk, I can walk, I can sing”, I am …
Material Description: Interjection Grammar Box, filler Box IXA, Box of Grammar Symbols Method: Activity Show the child where the grammar box is kept and ask the child to arrange the long cards, and shuffle them. One child reads the first phrase from the long card, say, ‘This is such a special exercise, you have …
An Introduction to Elementary Movements Receiving your children The infant arrives in the Children’s Home having already seen the Elementary Movements performed countless times at home by her family, but performed inconsistently, hurriedly and whilst many other activities are happening. The performance of Elementary Movements by the Directress gives the opportunity for the infant to …
Smooth and Rough Boards The tactile sense is used, especially by very young children to establish contact with the world, when the child enters the Children’s Hose the tactile sense is waining, becoming less urgent so it is important to establish contact between the child and the material early on. The fingertips are vital …
Material Description: Material used to sensitise the hands Pairs of tablets made with different substances which vary by their ability to conduct heat e.g. wood, felt, cork, glass, marble, slate and iron. All the squares are alike in size and each pair is made of the same colour Blindfold Note: Firstly, the …