Social Skills Activities
HSIE is the area of learning which encompasses roles, responsibilities and rules of social order. It uses a child's emerging language and mathematics skills to allow them to identify personally significant events and people in their lives, to identify and describe some of the characteristics common to people in terms of similarities and differences. For children this information is generally acquired via direct observation, talking to others, and by viewing, reading and listening to texts.
Games and Activities
Marbles
Marbles is designed to improve your little one’s hand eye co-ordination skills and ability to aim correctly while judging the level of force required to hit the required mark.
Cone Catching
Cone Catching is designed to improve your little one’s gross motor skills and hand eye co-ordination skills.
Little Life Line
Little Lifeline is designed to improve your little one’s understanding of where they have come from and how they fit into your family.
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is designed to improve your little one’s understanding of where they fit in the family and how every member of the family is interconnected.
Lovely Letters
Lovely Letters is designed to improve your little one’s hand writing and understanding of communication via post.
Fun Felt Story Board
Fun Felt Story Board is designed to improve your little one’s story telling abilities while also allowing them to practice their cutting of and drawing on pieces of material.
Memory
Memory is designed to improve your little one’s short term memory and concentration while teaching them the rules of turn taking in game play.
Twenty Questions
Twenty Questions is designed to improve your little one’s problem solving skills and develop language skills simultaneously. This game will also help to build your child’s memory and recall, challenging them to think beyond what they can see in their immediate surroundings.
Sit and Listen
Sit and Listen is a language building activity designed to improve your little one’s sense of hearing and language skills. It is designed to help your child discover just how much more is going on in the world around them. It will broaden your child’s awareness of the world they live in. It will also provide a few minutes of peace and quiet in what is probably a very noisy and hectic day. A discussion of the sounds you each hear will also assist in language development and an ability to articulate that which was heard.
Old MacDonald’s Farm
This version of Old MacDonald’s Farm is designed to improve your little one’s short term memory and attention span.
Pirate Play
Pirate Play is designed to improve your little one’s imagination skills and story building abilities. It will also help them with map reading and following instructions via the treasure hunts. In addition there are elements of art and craft and visual arts via costume design and creation of props.
Mark My Mistake
Mark My Mistake is designed to improve your little one’s observation and language skills as they identify your mistakes and tell you how to correct them.
Shape Day
Shape Day is designed to improve your little one’s recall of a new shape including both its name or properties.
Sensory Lunch
Sensory Lunch is designed to improve your little one’s sense of taste and food related vocabulary such as sweet, savoury, smooth or chewy.
Clue Eye Spy
Clue Eye Spy is designed to improve your little one’s observation ability and problem solving skills. The game uses clues or object colour rather than letters to aid in the guessing of the mysterious object. Clue Eye Spy is simpler for younger children than the traditional version and is a great way to increase your child’s awareness of his/her surroundings.
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