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Focusing on the Value of Cooperation
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Living Values Activities for Children Ages 3-7
Cooperation Ideas at Home for Parents of Children
Ages 3-7
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Cooperation - Living Values Activities for Children
Ages 3-7 
Excerpts from LVE's Living Values Activities for Children Ages
3-7
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| Cooperation Lesson Cooperative Eating Explain: ?In the next few weeks, we?re going to learn about cooperation. Cooperation means everyone helping to get something done. Cooperation is very important because we can?t do everything alone.? Demonstrate: The teacher can illustrate with something in the room that would be too heavy to lift for one child. ?Suppose David is in charge of selling things for a fair and he wants this big table over there instead of here. Does he need cooperation? . . . How many would like to cooperate? . . . Very good. Okay, let?s see the difference. With one person, moving the table is very hard; with ten it will be easy.? Ask ten children to gather around the table, slip their hands under it and lift it. Say: ?We all need cooperation sometimes.? Ask: ?When do you need cooperation?? (They might mention homework, putting a kite together, lacing up boots, building a tree house and so on.) Say: ?Today we?re going to have a snack (or lunch) that shows how important cooperation is. I want you all to pretend that your elbows do not work. They cannot bend. You have to figure out how you?re going to eat without bending your elbows! How are you going to do that?? Activity: Give them the snack and let them figure it out. If they do not after five or six minutes, model for them keeping your arms straight and getting fed by someone else while you feed the other person. This activity should provide a lot of laughter while learning! Ask: ?Is it more fun if the person who helps is happy to help or grumpy or mad? Say: ?Real cooperation is working together with patience and affection ? happily.? Sing: Introduce this song with the idea that cooperation with patience and affection is something that makes us shine. Star Song We are the Dstars that shine so A7brightly, We are the stars up in the Dsky, We are the D7stars that shine so Gbrightly, We are the Dstars, we are the A7stars, So see us Dshine. We are the stars of peace and harmony, We are the stars of love and light, We are the stars that shine so brightly, We are the stars, we are the stars, So see us shine. Cooperation Lesson Cooperative Games Introduce the Activity: Tell the children they will be expected to cooperate in two ways. As they will be holding a ribbon, and must not let go, they must cooperate together by paying attention to how they walk. If they are careful and cooperate, they will discover how to walk easily! Another way they must cooperate is by tossing or kicking the ball so that the other person can reach it. Everyone wins when the ball keeps going back and forth. Activity: This activity may be better outside on the grass if the weather is good. Get three or four children to hold on to the ribbon (as noted in the previous lesson with two children). Provide a balloon or ball and let them play tossing it back and forth. As with the other tasks, affirm positive comments and fun. Another Activity: Get two children to hold onto a ribbon and ask them to team up with two other children who are also holding on to another ribbon. Their task is to kick a ball back and forth between teams. Discuss:
Acknowledge their responses. If they have not mentioned the following,
ask if they would like to hear some other examples. Act out the
following, adding comments you may have heard. Say:
Activity: Ask each child to draw a picture of himself or herself cooperating at home.
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Cooperation - For Parents
of 3- 7-Year-Olds
Excerpts from Living Values Parent Groups: A Facilitator Guide
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At Home
Discuss with a partner or friend which types of behaviour and words help the feeling of cooperation. Which types of behaviour and words detract from the feeling of cooperation? Read stories about cooperation to the children.
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