This very colorful DVD is divided into three sessions of early-learning games for children aged 2 to 5 years old. It features three puppets: Oüm, the main character asks children to participate in his friend’s lessons with him. Mimi has a talent for music and Coco for physical activity. Children and animals appear throughout each of the lessons. Both the English and French original versions are included.

List of courses:

Session 1: statue game and dance – nursery rhyme about the senses – rhythm
Session 2: intensity of sounds – identification of the parts of the body – tempo – high and low pitches

Session 3: acting out a nursery rhyme – pretending to be a growing plant – animal imitations

Notions:

Rhythm, tempo, intensity of sounds, identification of one’s body parts, fine motor skills, gross motor skills, hand movements, lyrics, melody, spatial orientation, awareness of one’s body, acknowledgement of one’s skills

Psychomotor and physical development

through sensory funneling: hearing, vocal, visual

through the organization of movements in time: temporal organization, anticipation, temporal structuring, and rhythm

through the organization of movements in space: fluidity, visual-spatial processing

through the mastering of motor skills: posture, self-control, muscular and neural balance, independence of one’s body movements

through the progressive awareness of one’s body schema: rhythm, motoricity, body orientation, laterality…

DVD introduction

Nathalie Hazan, an art-therapist and family therapist, introduces the DVD along with explanations on how to make the best use of it.

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