Amazing ME – Video Five

Link to Te Whaariki
Goal - Exploration - The child learns through active exploration of the environment

Video five supports a child exploring their environment and the various uses of their body. The messages in this video promotes body awareness by:

• Children being able to use the correct names for parts of their body
• Exploring how bodies can run, jump, hop, skip
• All people can feel uncomfortable when their privacy is invaded
• Painting / drawing about the discovery of new things
• Asking questions
• Encouraging children to enjoy their natural world
  

Video five 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 five

Children will begin to:

• Practice taking turns, negotiate, co-operate
• Recognise feelings of others and themselves
• Show or tell an adult when they feel scared

Children will:

• Gain confidence in and control over their bodies
• Explore and make sense of the world by using their bodies. Thinking about what feels OK
• The ability to enquire, explore the natural world

Learning outcomes identified in Te Whaariki:
Exploration - Goal 2

Children develop:

• Increasing knowledge about how to keep physically healthy
• Increasing control over their bodies, including development of locomotor skills, non-locomotor skills, manipulative skills and increasing agility, co-ordination, and balance.

Exploration - Goal 4

Children develop:

• Theories about social relationships and social concepts, such as friendship, authority, and social rules and understandings
• Respect and a developing sense of responsibility for the well-being of both the living and the non-living environment

Links to Desirable Objectives and Practises

DOP 5e reads:

Educators should plan, implement and evaluate curriculum for children in which:
Children's play is valued as meaningful learning and the importance of spontaneous play is recognised; children gain confidence in and control of their bodies; children learn strategies for active exploration, thinking and reasoning; and children develop working theories for making sense of the natural, social, physical and material worlds.