The Georgia Early Learning Standards Activity Guides may - gapitc

Understands spoken words
(receptive language)
Show Me
Give each child a puppet or bean bag
Activities and Strategies
for Development
Ask the children to show you the following actions: “Put the bean bag on top of
your head, beside your shoe, under your arm.”
If children have difficulty showing the position word, model the position/
locations for them with your own puppet or bean bag and say the position
word, “My puppet is on my shoulder.”
Give each child a different position word to practice.
Say, “Saleem, show me how you put your puppet on the bookshelf.” “Alyssa, show
me how you put your puppet under the rocking chair.”
A variation is to give one child a bean bag during Circle Time. Close your eyes
and give directions for the child and a partner to put the bean bag in a specific
place using position words. For example, “Mary, go with Phyllis and put the bean
bag in front of the fish bowl.” Open your eyes and see if the bean bag is in the
correct place. Repeat with other children and directions.
Special Needs Tip
Use signs to ask a child who is hearing impaired to show you the
different positions with the bean bag or puppet.
Playing By the Rules
Before reading a story at circle time, ask children if they know what to do
when the teacher says, “Show me your quiet hands.”
Model and have children show you their hands resting in their laps or at
their side.
While preparing to go down the hallway to the playground or elsewhere, ask
the children to show you “walking feet.”
Show them how to take small steps at a slow pace.
Have children act out other words or phrases to learn other classroom rules,
such as “taking turns” by bouncing the ball and then passing it to a classmate, or
“share with our friends” by passing the basket of snack crackers around the table.
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