Wednesday, February 29, 2012

How to practice my good habits - March 2012



Dear Parent,

We are pleased to inform you that we shall start our current theme “7 habits of Happy Kids” from the beginning of March 2012.
To have a kick start we need to understand the goals of this topic of inquiry!
Firstly, we must understand that early learners adjust to their environment easily and try to learn everything they need to by trying out and by observing their parents and other adults. Therefore, your child’s behavior lies in the hands of you/ other care givers and how supportive the adults are in their daily learning process. This learning moulds a child and the habits instilled in them last even when they are grownups!!!!
 Therefore, we must keep in mind that the early childhood is the most important time to introduce good habits.
As Educators and adults who directly associate your children we have a very big responsibility to be the right model and as parents you too.
Through this topic of Inquiry, we like to introduce 7 good habits!
To start with, let’s practice being responsible!
On Friday 24 Feb, the children, showed the photos they brought in and discussed their place in the family. They introduced their relatives and friends to their peers and teachers and doing so the children became aware that they live in a family and that each child belonged to a family!!! The second step starts on Tuesday, Feb 28, when we discuss with them about how they could be responsible by being helpful at home!!!   Please help your child/ children to be helpful in your daily chores at home.
How to help your child…
1.       Speak to your child how important it is to be able to help at home
2.       Explain how he can be of help, Eg Bringing the cutlery to arrange the table for the family dinner
3.       Assign a tiny job for him to do, regularly…
4.       Reward him/her when he/she remembers to do that with a star mark on a chart or simply acknowledging
5.       Open a scrap book made out of re usable paper / scrap paper/ real diary and stick in a picture he/she draws (doing the job assigned for the child) or photograph him/her doing so and stick the photo.
6.       Sit with your child and write a simple line about the job he/ she has done.
7.       Continue to do so with the second & third day for it becomes practice and then a HABIT!!!
8.       Record what you observe in simple lines… Send the scrap book every third day to the nursery….

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