At this age, Self-awareness helps children Providing Opportunities and Experiences for Knowing about themselves, their body parts, and family members to understand their emotions, behaviors, and relationships with others. It’s an essential skill that will benefit them throughout their lives! Self-awareness is an important skill for preschoolers to develop at a young age. It also allows them to recognize the feelings of those around them and build empathy toward others. Educators can help foster self-awareness for 3 to 6-year-old preschoolers by providing activities that encourage the exploration of their own thoughts and feelings as well as those of other people they interact with on a daily basis.

Goals of self-awareness for 3 to a 6-year preschooler

The main goal of self-awareness is Providing Opportunities and Experiences for Knowing about themselves, their body parts, and family members. Knowing the names and understanding the relationships through different games and activities, for example, clapping names and friendship walk, etc. Recognizing their role in different settings and their value for example through the celebration of birthdays and appreciating and displaying their contribution/ work.

To be self-aware, your student must be able to:

1. Identify their body parts: Your students need to be able to identify their body parts.
2. Identify their family members: Your students need to be able to identify and express their family members.
3. Aware of his helpers: Your students must be able to identify and understand the value of their helpers. Like Police, Doctors, Nurses, etc.
4. Recognizing their role: Your students must be able to recognize their role in different values. Like celebrating birthdays and appreciating his friends.
5. Work toward growth: Your students must be aware of self-growth. Aware of working to gain knowledge continuously.

How to teach self-awareness to 3 to 4-year student

The best way you should use the pedological process of learning. “Pedagogy, most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners.”

SOURCE: Wikipedia

Some Activities and Strategies for Teaching Self-Awareness

1. Educational Charts: You make the children stand in front of the educational chart and tell them the names of different things and ask them to identify the things.
2. Repeat with you: You act things with different body actions and say their names, ask children to repeat the names of things. With this, children quickly learn to recognize body language and things.
3. Ask to identify body parts: Call children one by one and ask them to identify different body parts and their clothes. Like the Nose, Ear, Hand, Pants, Shirt, etc.
4. Teach to sing poems and tell stories: Teach students with melodious poems with different body expressions. The teachers must sing and students should be repeated. Singing poem help to learn quicker. There are a lot of poems but, a poem in the mother tongue is better.
5. Do a daily number and table counting drill: Mathematics is the most important to build logical thinking in early learners. So 1 to 100 counting and 2 to 10 table is essential for all these age group learners.
6. Try to teach them how to write and draw but a little bit.

Early Learning Outcomes for 3 to 4-year Preschoolers

Children are beginning to state some physical characteristics, of self and Identify close family members.

• Children are able to identify their body parts.
• They are able to express his/her family.
• They know about their helpers.
• They are able to put pencils and make simple paintings.
• They are able to count from 0 to 100.
• They are able to speak number tables of up to 10.
• They sing melodies-poems.
• They talk short moral stories.
• They have following good manners.
• They started self-care.

How to teach self-awareness to 4 to 5-year student

Follow the pedological process of learning. As parents, it is your responsibility to ensure that your children develop a strong sense of self-worth and pride in their accomplishments. One way to do this is by giving them small responsibilities around the house or school. This could be anything like helping, doing homework, doing assignments, or even participating in family activities.

Some Activities and Strategies for Teaching Self-Awareness

1. Repeat the previous year’s syllabus and improve the curriculum and start the new syllabus with the following tips.
2. Teach students to write Letters & Numbers: You make the children practice and write letters and numbers.
3. Students now start simple dot-to-dot matching: Now you can teach students to match different dots and solve simple puzzles.
4. Ask to identify different colors: Teach students about different colors with reference to real things. For example Banana=Yellow, Grapes=Green, etc.
5. Shape Shorting: Teach students about different basic shapes. The main basic shapes for kids are Square, Rectangle, Rhombus, Circle, Triangle, etc.
6. Simple Maths: Mathematics is the most important to build logical thinking in early learners. So 1 to 100 counting and 2 to 20 table is essential for all these age group learners. Also, try to start simple mathematic calculations like addition and subtraction. For a better teaching experience teaching with physical things is work better. For example, take 10 balls in a bucket and take out 2 from it and ask children to count the leftover balls and write the figures on the teaching board(Whiteboard/Blackboard).
7. Cultural Activity: Start to teach about the culture and the reason, why different festivals are celebrated. For example – Dipawali-For Lord Rama, Holi-For Lord Narasimha, Republic Day for being a republic country, Independence day for freedom, etc.

Early Learning Outcomes for 4 to 5-year Preschoolers

Children are beginning to state some logical things and learning to solve some mathematical solutions and practicing to write letters and numbers. Now the children have the below skills with the combination and betterment of the previous year’s(Skills which are learned during 3 to 4 years) skills.

• Children are able to write and identify letters and numbers.
• They are able to solve simple puzzles and able to connect dot-to-dot figures/sketches.
• They know about different colors and are able to identify them.
• Now, they know about different shapes and are also able to tell/spell the names of the shapes.
• They are able to write numbers from 0 to 100.
• They are able to speak number tables of up to 20.
• They sing melodies-poems.
• They know about different festivals and cultural activities of their country.
• They have following good manners.
• They know about good and healthy habits and started taking care of themselves and others.

How to teach self-awareness to 5 to 6-year student

This is the last year of preschool. Children are ready for schooling. The curriculum focuses on developing social skills, fostering creativity, introducing basic academic concepts such as simple calculations and paragraph recognition, physical development through games or tag, and music appreciation with singing games or instruments like tambourines or drums – all while having fun in a safe environment!

Some Activities and Strategies for Teaching Self-Awareness

1. Rewise both previous year’s syllabi and improve the curriculum and start the new syllabus with the following tips.
2. Teach students to write names and simple paragraphs: You make the children practice reading and write simple paragraphs.
3. Students now start basic reasoning practices: Now you can teach students basic logical reasoning, which is very effective for mental and cognitive development.
4. Make simple culprits with clay: Teach students to make simple models of clay.
5. Measurements: Teach students about different basic shapes and their measurements.
6. Maths: 2 to 30 number table is essential for all these age group learners. Teach medium addition and subtraction. Also, teach simple calculations like multiplication and division. Give language-based questions for logical building. For example:- Q-1. In an ice cream shop, the price of ice cream is 5 rupees. Raja has 100 Ruppes, how many ice cream is he able to buy?
7. Safety rules: Start to teach about the road and safety rules. The curriculum must include zebra crossings, traffic lights, earthquakes, floods, etc. Also, explain a little bit about disaster management.
8. Money Control: Teach about the value of money and money management.
9. Technical training: Start to teach about, how to use smart devices in a good and effective manner to gain knowledge.
10. Musical Training: Music play an effective role in kids to unless their creativity. Inspired, Uplifted, Relax, Relieve stress and tension. So starting musical training at an early age is very beneficial.

Early Learning Outcomes for 5 to 6-year Preschoolers

Now the children have the below skills with the combination and betterment of the previous 2 years’ skills which are learned during 3 to 5 years.

• Children are able to write, read and speak fluently.
• They are able to solve logical puzzles and able to able to solve simple logical reasonings.
• Now, they are a junior artist who makes simple culprits with clay.
• They are able to solve basic calculations.
• They are able to speak and write number tables of up to 30.
• They are able to play some basic musical instruments.
• They know about different festivals and cultural activities of their country.
• They have following good manners.
• They know about good and healthy habits and started taking care of themselves and others.

Suggested study materials to teach better:

It is best to create your own resource to teach better, but most educators don’t know how to create impactful resources. There are some ideas for parents and teachers:

• Different educational charts
• Big Picture Book Designed by Quixot-Publication(ITOYS) in association with BABYHUG CLICK HERE
• Little story books
• Creative educational and stationary toys.
• Self-awareness toys.
• Educational toys from ITOYS etc.

Quick recap:

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