We both have to do it

  • Development of cooperative habits
  • Interest in sharing
  • Respect to the rules

We want the children to learn that usually teamwork is easier, funnier and more useful than individual work. We also want to teach them that they always have to help each other. In this way we will make them work in pairs.

The teacher will bring a wool skein into the class.

A child will try by himself/herself to wind the skein. Oh, my goodness! What a mess! The wool skein is getting tangled! The child needs help.

The teacher asks the rest of the group: "Who wants to help him/her?". Then, the volunteer will hold the skein and the other pupil will wind it.

These two children start the dynamic, but all of them will take turns to participate in it.

 



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