CORE CONCEPTS
The following are core concepts that should be addressed during this session:
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Strengths and weaknesses within ourselves
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Situations in which our strengths can be used to help us when we are finding it difficult to cope
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Situations in which we need to ask for help
OUTLINE OF THE SESSION
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Welcome
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The feeling thermometer
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Climbing down the Tree exercise
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Ice-breaker - Wool web
ICE-BREAKER
Wool web (10 minutes)
Materials needed: Ball of wool
Activity
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Facilitator gives a ball of wool to one of the children and asks him or her to tell something about himself or herself.
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The facilitator then asks the group who has a similar characteristic or who identifies with what the child says.
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The child will then pass the ball of wool to one of the children while keeping hold of the end of the wool.
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The child with the ball of wool will describe something about himself or herself and then pass the ball on to another
child, who raises his or her hand signalling he or she identifies with what has been said.
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Before passing the ball of wool on, the child holds on to the strand of wool and passes the wool on.
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At the end of the game each child will be holding on to the wool.
ACTIVITY 1 - THE STORY OF LITTLE THABO BEAR (15 MINUTES)
Instruction to the Facilitator: Read out the story using the storyboard (Addendum B).
Activity 1 - The story of Thabo Bear
One sunny day Mr Owl was teaching the animal children spelling. Mr Owl decided to motivate the children to really learn their words,
and so he decided to give the top three children a special Parker pen.
All the animal children were very excited, but Thabo Bear was determined to learn to spell all his words so that he could get one of
Mr Owl's special Parker pens.
He practised his spelling the whole week. He labelled all the objects in his room with big colourful cards so that he would see the
words every day, and in so doing he would remember how to spell them.
One word he really battled with, though, was the word Pencil. He could never remember how to spell it. "Is it with an "S" or a "C",
he kept asking himself? But every time he tried to spell it he would get it wrong. The day before the test he learnt to spell this word
and that night before he went to bed he decided to put the colourful card in his hat so that he could keep practising on the way to
school in the morning.
Children
Thabo Bear was very sure that he would get all his words right and he went to sleep feeling very happy.
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The KGOLO-MMOGO PROJECT