WHAT IS MY JOB? WHAT IS MY JOB?
Careers are always fun for guessing games based on job descriptions and uniform clues. On this flip card, we have everything from Hula dancers to construction works to office workers.
The tune that this activity goes with is that of Brother John. The leader chooses a career of any sort and starts with:
What is my job?
What is my job?
Can you guess?
Can you guess?
Then based on the career he or she chose, he sings some clues about the career so the participants can guess. For example:
I can fix the water pipes.
I can fix the water pipes.
Who am I?
Who am I?
In this case, the answer would be “a plumber”.
Here are some other examples of the clues one could sing:
“I deliver letters. I deliver letters. Who …show more content…
HAT, HAT, WHO HAS THE HAT?
This is a fun closing activity for the Oval Time Session. It is a way of acknowledging all those who have been present and their participation in today’s activity.
The leader lets the participants choose a hat for the day from a stack of varied hats.
Note: For hygienic purposes, these should be sprayed down regularly with a disinfectant of some sort or washed in the washing machine. Once used, we put the hat in the hamper or disinfecting pile until we can clean it before putting it back in the stack. By insuring good hygiene at all times, we have not had a problem in all the years we have done this activity.
The leader puts the chosen hat on the first participant and chants:
Hat, Hat, Who has the hat?
The participants respond:
__(name of participant with the hat on)__ has the hat!
The leader than chants back:
__(name of participant with the hat on)__pass the hat to __(name of another participant)__.
The leader does this until all staff and participants have had a chance to have the hat on. The idea is to do this very quickly and similar to how one would lead a game of Hot …show more content…
In essence, my students’ needs ran my classroom. It was never about what my staff or I wanted or needed. We were there for the students. It was that simple.
In trying to find strategies to best work with them, I discovered many ways of meeting the challenge of making their days as fulfilling and productive as possible. Their various physical and cognitive disabilities brought me many times to the computer to search for ideas that I could create to help hold their attention, motivate them, and help them to focus.
I spent endless hours on my computer and in trainings looking up songs, activities, fine motor skill activities, and brain activities to figure out what would best work for them. I took ideas and tweaked them to make them my own. I put them together into this program and tried to keep it as up building, fun and colorful as possible. The creation of Mel's Circle Time! Mel's Oval Time! is a product of years of experimenting, guessing, hoping, failing, and finding
Careers are always fun for guessing games based on job descriptions and uniform clues. On this flip card, we have everything from Hula dancers to construction works to office workers.
The tune that this activity goes with is that of Brother John. The leader chooses a career of any sort and starts with:
What is my job?
What is my job?
Can you guess?
Can you guess?
Then based on the career he or she chose, he sings some clues about the career so the participants can guess. For example:
I can fix the water pipes.
I can fix the water pipes.
Who am I?
Who am I?
In this case, the answer would be “a plumber”.
Here are some other examples of the clues one could sing:
“I deliver letters. I deliver letters. Who …show more content…
HAT, HAT, WHO HAS THE HAT?
This is a fun closing activity for the Oval Time Session. It is a way of acknowledging all those who have been present and their participation in today’s activity.
The leader lets the participants choose a hat for the day from a stack of varied hats.
Note: For hygienic purposes, these should be sprayed down regularly with a disinfectant of some sort or washed in the washing machine. Once used, we put the hat in the hamper or disinfecting pile until we can clean it before putting it back in the stack. By insuring good hygiene at all times, we have not had a problem in all the years we have done this activity.
The leader puts the chosen hat on the first participant and chants:
Hat, Hat, Who has the hat?
The participants respond:
__(name of participant with the hat on)__ has the hat!
The leader than chants back:
__(name of participant with the hat on)__pass the hat to __(name of another participant)__.
The leader does this until all staff and participants have had a chance to have the hat on. The idea is to do this very quickly and similar to how one would lead a game of Hot …show more content…
In essence, my students’ needs ran my classroom. It was never about what my staff or I wanted or needed. We were there for the students. It was that simple.
In trying to find strategies to best work with them, I discovered many ways of meeting the challenge of making their days as fulfilling and productive as possible. Their various physical and cognitive disabilities brought me many times to the computer to search for ideas that I could create to help hold their attention, motivate them, and help them to focus.
I spent endless hours on my computer and in trainings looking up songs, activities, fine motor skill activities, and brain activities to figure out what would best work for them. I took ideas and tweaked them to make them my own. I put them together into this program and tried to keep it as up building, fun and colorful as possible. The creation of Mel's Circle Time! Mel's Oval Time! is a product of years of experimenting, guessing, hoping, failing, and finding