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Amazing ME – Video Four

Link to Te Whaariki
Goal - Communication - The languages and symbols of their own and other culture are promoted and protected.

Video four promotes the development of communication skills.
The messages in this video promotes the idea that children can:

  • Tell someone that they don't like that
  • Be happy, sad, angry, mad
  • Not always like what happens to them
  • Draw pictures to express how they feel
  • Dramatise how they feel
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Video four also supports the child's sense of well-being and belonging, also the development of contribution and exploration.

Learning outcomes
Knowledge, skills and attitudes developed in video four

Children will begin to:

  • Express their feelings
  • Be aware of the ownership of their bodies
  • Have the right to privacy or openness
  • Stop, think and then act
  • Know that they can express their feelings
  • Learn to say "Stop, I don't like it", if someone touches them and they do not like it
  • Learn that all feelings are acceptable but not all actions are
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Learning outcomes identified in Te Whaariki:
Communication - Goal 1

Children develop:

  • Responsive and reciprocal skills, such as turn-taking and offering
  • An ability to express their feelings and emotions in a range of appropriate nonverbal ways

Communication - Goal 2

Children develop:

  • Language skills for increasingly complex purposes, such as stating and asking others about intentions, expressing feelings and attitudes and asking others about feelings and attitudes; negotiating, predicting, planning, reasoning, guessing, story-telling' and using the language of probability, including words such as "might", "can't", ''always, "never'', and "sometimes"
  • The expectation that verbal communication will be a source of delight, comfort, and amusement and that it can be used to effectively communicate ideas and information and solve problems.
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Communication - Goal 4

Children develop:

  • Skills with media that can be used for expressing a mood or a feeling or for representing information, such as crayons, pencils, paint, blocks, wood, musical instruments, and movement skills
  • Familiarity with a variety of types of music, art, dance, and drama as expressions of feeling, mood, situation, occasion, and culture.

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Links to Desirable Objectives and Practises

DOP 5d reads:

Educators should plan, implement and evaluate curriculum for children in which:
Children develop verbal and non-verbal communication skills for a range of purposes; children experience the stories and symbols of their own and other cultures; and children discover and develop different ways to be creative and expressive.

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