Facilitation

You saw Tao preparing his baseplate for a friend. He remains focused on the bricks, following the instructions, writing real words and adding some traps.

“Words and Space” is a great example for developing all five categories of holistic skills.

• Cognitive: the starting point was to build an activity to reach a universal cognitive academic skill : “develop understanding concepts such as leaving spaces between words”.

“Words and Space” fosters work on many other aspects and goes much further than a simple cognitive discovery.

What kind of other holistic skills will children develop?

• Creative: a second one is obvious: “Perform operations on letters and word syllables, remove, add, reverse, locate, substitute”. It is a creative one because children really have to play with letters, removing, reconstituting and creating words.

• Physical: for this activity, good tracking and tactile skills are needed with both hands. Children learn to track a line, read a letter on a brick with one hand and use the other to replace the brick correctly to create words. “Develop bilateral hand use” is a physical skill.

• Emotional: can emotions be explored in this activity? Yes! “Develop vocabulary and understanding in reading”. Reading a book or just a word can lead to a lot of feelings! Some children don’t want to touch the word “snake”! And a smile can suddenly appear when reading words that bring back favourite memories!

• Social: “Participate with other students in both relation leadership and follower roles” is also fundamental, even when activities are prepared by adults or children.

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