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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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One who cooperates receives cooperation. The method to give cooperation is to use the energy of the mind to create vibrations of good wishes and pure feelings for others and for the task.

One who cooperates receives cooperation. The method to give cooperation is to use the energy of the mind to create vibrations of good wishes and pure feelings for others and for the task.

 

Cooperation - Living Values Activities for Children Ages 3-7 
 Excerpts from LVE's Living Values Activities for Children Ages 3-7
 
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:
  • What helped you walk when you were holding on to a ribbon with someone else?
  • What things do you like to hear when you are trying to do something together?
  • What things make you feel good when you cooperate?

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:

With a negative voice tone: With a positive voice tone:

?No, not that way, stupid.? ?Let?s try it this way.?
?That?s a little better.? ?Good!?
?You missed it again.? ?Good try.?


Cooperation Lesson
Cooperation at Home

Discuss:

  • How are you cooperative at home?
  • How do you help _____?

Activity: Ask each child to draw a picture of himself or herself cooperating at home.

 

  Cooperation - For Parents of 3- 7-Year-Olds 
 Excerpts from Living Values Parent Groups: A Facilitator Guide
 

At Home

  • These are the Cooperation Points for children of this age.
  • Cooperation is everyone helping to get something done.
  • Cooperation is working together toward the same goal.
  • Cooperation is working together with patience and affection.

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.

  • When you are preparing to have a picnic, go to the park or do something fun, have everyone in the family tell you how they can cooperate. If the 3-year-old cannot think of a way to help, create a task for him or her to do.
  • Enjoy doing small, cooperative things to make the world a better place. For instance, place a neighbour?s paper on their porch when it is wet outside, take someone a meal that you cooked together, plant a flower in a little pot for someone who has been loving.
  • Notice and positively comment on the children?s cooperative behaviour.
  • Remark to your children when you notice how someone is cooperating with your family. Perhaps an uncle noticed the plants were thirsty and watered them, maybe a neighbour helped get the children to school or someone fed the dog while you were away.
  • When you are out with your children, point out examples of cooperation. For example, how the farmer, the truck driver and the grocer each does his or her part so there is food; how everyone on the rowing team cooperates to speed the boat in the right direction.

 

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