The Memory Line

This is a fun way for children to learn the 100 messages. Not all the children are able to remember all ten messages after the first session, but if you start each lesson with the memory line they will learn the messages better. When they have learnt all the messages from one topic, then you can move onto the next topic and learn all 100 messages!

Preparation

Print (or write) out the 10 messages from one of our topics so you can give one message to each child in your group. Please only do one topic at a time!

1. Caring for Babies & Young Children
2. Coughs, Colds & Pheumonia
3. Immunisation
4. Malaria
5. Diarrhoea
6. Water, Sanistation & Hygiene
7. Nutrition
8. Intestinal Worms
9. Accidents & Preventing Injuries
10. HIV & AIDS
11. Extra Health Topics are available too!

Steps

1. Give each child a piece of paper with one message to memorise. If there are more than 20 students in the group, repeat messages as needed.
2. Ask them to find another child with the same message and form pairs or threes (if there is an uneven number of children).
3. Ask them to form a circle with the pairs standing side-by-side.
4. Ask each pair to take turns coming into the circle and saying their message out loud. The whole group repeats it after them.
5. Tell the pairs that it is easier to remember the messages when actions are added.
6. Ask children to create actions to go with their message and practice saying the words with the actions.
7. Demonstrate the action that relates to the message for the group.
8. Repeat the group work where each pair comes into the middle, and then the group repeats it.
9. Ask the group to stand in a line with the pairs facing each other.
10. Rearrange the line so that the ‘Messages’ are arranged in the correct order.
11. Ask the first pair to say their message with the action and then the whole group repeats.
12. Ask the second pair to repeat the first message and then add their message.
13. The whole group repeats Messages One and Two.
14. Continue down the line until the whole group has repeated all 10 messages with the actions.