101 Life Skills Games for Children: Learning, Growing, Getting Along (Ages 6-12)How do you teach tolerance, self-awareness, and responsibility? How can you help children deal with fear, mistrust, or aggression? Play a game with them! Games are an ideal way to help children develop social and emotional skills; they are exciting, relaxing, and fun. 101 LIFE SKILLS GAMES FOR CHILDREN: LEARNING, GROWING, GETTING ALONG (Ages 6-12) is a resource that can help children understand and deal with problems that arise in daily interactions with other children and adults. These games help children develop social and emotional skills and enhance self-awareness. The games address the following issues: dependence, aggression, fear, resentment, disability, accusations, boasting, honesty, flexibility, patience, secrets, conscience, inhibitions, stereotypes, noise, lying, performance, closeness, weaknesses, self confidence, fun, reassurance, love, respect, integrating a new classmate, group conflict. Organized in three main chapters: (I-Games, You-Games and We-Games), the book is well structured and easily accessible. It specifies an objective for every game, gives step-by-step instructions, and offers questions for reflection. It provides possible variations for each game, examples, tips, and ideas for role plays. Each game contains references to appropriate follow-up games and is illustrated with charming drawings. |
Contents
The Rooms ABCs Chapter 10 Changing the Room | 1 |
Whats Made of This? | 5 |
The Traveling Mystery | 7 |
A Piece at a Time | 9 |
Seeing with Your Ears | 12 |
Telling Noises Apart | 13 |
Stand Up for Your Instrument Chapter 17 Telling Sounds Apart | 16 |
Collecting Sound Qualities | 18 |
Song Memory | 19 |
Other editions - View all
101 Life Skills Games for Children: Learning, Growing, Getting Along (Ages 6-12) Bernie Badegruber No preview available - 2005 |
101 Life Skills Games for Children: Learning, Growing, Getting Along (Ages 6-12) Bernie Badegruber,Alois Jesner No preview available - 2011 |
Common terms and phrases
Aggression Games balloons Beat the Clock behavior Blind Pool cards chair circle Comforter Game Cooperation Games Crocodile Tears Cry for Help Dealing Evil Fairy's Examples eyes Fair Ball Fairytale Games Fairytale Personalities feel Follow-up Games 1-5 follow-up games suggested Freeze Tag Frontline Games All follow-up Games Follow-up Games Games for Children Games from 101 Getting to Know Ghosts and Travelers Gretel group leader Grouping Game hands Hansel and Gretel helper Helping Games Integrating New Classmates Jean Piaget Learning to cooperate Mannequins Master Sheet object Orff instruments Pantomime Play Paper and pens/pencils Peace Language pens/pencils for writing physical contact players sit players walk Polite Wild Animals PROBLEM SLIP Props Reflections Relationship Games Right Is Empty Role Plays Rumors Seat Skills Games Slo-Mo Tennis Solution Memory someone Spin and Freeze Statue and Sculpting Statue Pairs suggested follow-up games Traveling Names Tug of War Vampire Variation visual awareness Warming-up Games writing Goals