The Application of Taiso Radio Gymnastic in Improving Gross Motor Ability of Children Aged 5-6 Years

The objective of this study was to obtain the data on the improvement of gross motor ability of children aged 5-6 years with taiso radio gymnastics. This research was included in the experimental research type. The population in this study were children aged 5-6 years at RA Diponegoro Kertanegara, Purbalingga. The respondents in this study were 33 children. The method of data collection in this study was the observation instrument of gross motor ability of children aged 5-6 years. Then the method of data analysis used were descriptive and hypothesis testing with Paired Sample t-Test. The results of this study indicated that the gross motor ability of children aged 5-6 years after being given treatment which was in the form of Taiso Radio gymnastics from an average of 92.91 to an average of 106.48. This was given a pretest treatment of gross motor ability of children aged 5-6 years in the fair category with a percentage index of 12.12% and a good category with a percentage index of 87.88%. After being given treatment (posttest) there was an increase in gross motor ability of children aged 5-6 years into a good category with a percentage index of 81.81% and a very good category with an achievement index of 18.19%. Therefore, taiso radio exercise is effective in increasing gross motor ability of children aged 5-6 years. Based on the results of the Paired Sample t Test calculation, the researcher obtained values -table > count > table, which was (-14.544 < -2.036 or 14.544 > 2.036), with sig = 0,000, so that was rejected and was accepted. It meant that there were differences in the gross motor ability of children aged 5-6 years after being applied to Taiso Radio gymnastics. The difference can be seen from the value of sig 2 tailed <0.005 which was 0,000.

Weight and Height Growth of Children Age 14-23 Months Reviewed from Nutrition Intake

Breast milk is the best food for babies. WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months of birth in infants. Breast milk contains all the substances that babies need. However, there are still babies who are not given exclusive breastfeeding and have never even felt breast milk. This is due to the mother's breastmilk not coming out, working mothers, or the production of breastmilk that is felt to be inadequate in meeting the needs of the baby. This study discusses the differences in growth focused on the weight and height of children aged 14-23 months who drink breast milk and infant formula. This type of research is a comparative study with cross sectional design. The population is 115 children aged 12-24 months in Sekaran village. As in this study, respondents are 30 mothers who have children aged 14-23 months. While the sample is 15 children who drink breast milk and 15 children who drink infant formula. The sampling technique uses purposive sampling, where the sample is selected according to predetermined inclusion criteria. Data collection is done through questionnaires, interviews, and documentation. Growth data is seen through KMS (health card), filling questionnaires, and interviews with respondents. Hypothesis testing uses an independent t test. The results showed that there are differences in body weight and height growth between children aged 14-23 months who are breastfeed and who take infant formula. The average weight growth value of children who drink breast milk is 10.94 and children who drink formula milk 11.83. The average height growth value of children who drink breast milk is 81.85 and children who drink formula milk 78.46. The difference in average body weight of children who drink breast milk with children who drink formula milk is 1.43. While the difference in the average height of a child who drinks milk with a child who drinks formula milk is 3.39.

The Study of Early Childhood Character in Semurup Rawa Pening Hamlet Semarang Regency

Semurup Hamlet is a tourist village located in the Rawa Pening area of Semarang Regency. As a tourist village with a large number of visitors, it has an influence on the character development of early childhood. This study aims (1) to know and describe the character of independence, responsibility, religion, and courtesy of early childhood, (2) to find out and describe the efforts of parents and the community in educating the character of early childhood, and (3) to know and describe the obstacles faced by parents and the community in educating the character of early childhood in the Semurup Hamlet, Semarang Regency. This study uses a qualitative descriptive research method. Data collection techniques are interviews, observation, and documentation. The obtained data is examined for the validity of the data by triangulation of data sources and methods. The results showed that (1) early childhood in Semurup Hamlet have the character of positive and negative independence, positive responsibility, positive religious, and positive and negative manners, (2) efforts made by parents in educating the character of children early by habituating, giving examples, and giving rewards, while community efforts are to provide advice and support for every educational activity, (3) obstacles that are experienced by parents in educating the character of the age child are internal factors including busyness of parents and the age of child, external factors include the influence of the environment around the residence and the development of information and communication technology, while the obstacle faced by the community is communication with parents.

The Differences in Children Music Skills that Follow Kolintang Extracurriculars with Children who Do Not Follow Kolintang Extracurriculars

Children have many abilities that continue to develop; there are musical abilities of children who also develop. At the Kintelan Semarang State Kindergarten there is a kolintang extracurricular to support the development of children's musical abilities, but not all children join the kolintang extracurricular. The aim of this study was to determine the musical ability of children who take kolintang extracurricular activities with children who do not take kolintang extracurricular activities at Kintelan Semarang State Kindergarten. This research uses quantitative research with comparative methods. The subject and population of this study were children of Class B of Kintelan Semarang State Kindergarten. The data collection was carried out by distributing questionnaires. The data analysis technique used is the analysis of the independent sample t-test, which was previously subjected to a prerequisite test, namely the normality and homogeneity tests. The results showed that children who took kolintang extracurricular activities got a minimum value of 86, a maximum score of 134, and an average value of 119.79, while children who did not take extracurricular kolintang received a minimum value of 70, a maximum value of 114, and an average value of 90.93. tcount > ttabel is 4,389> 1,701 and Sig <0.05 is 0,000 <0.05. The conclusion of this study is that there is a significant difference in the musical abilities of children who take kolintang extracurricular activities with children who do not take kolintang extracurricular activities. The suggestion of this research is that the teacher should motivate all children to be able to participate in kolintang extracurricular activities so that their musical abilities can develop optimally.

Learning Program of National Vision Cultivation to Indonesian Children with Permanent Resident Status

Many conflicts that arise in Indonesia such as loss of humanity, love and respect for NKRI, recognition of the culture by other nations, causing division between regions, countries and nations. Therefore, it becomes an important thing to cultivate learning national vision into the nation's next-generation, especially from an early age. Various character values ​​need to be applied to children, especially the character to love culture of the nation and country, which is grown through learning the cultivation of national vision. So, children know the origin of their birth and various cultures of their resident people. This study aims to determine the learning program for the cultivation of national vision in Indonesian children with permanent resident status (PR) at Little Stars Kindergarten, School of Indonesia (Singapore) Ltd. In addition, this study aims to see how the behavior of students after participating in the learning of national vision at Little Stars Kindergarten, School of Indonesia (Singapore) Ltd. The target of this study is Indonesian children with permanent resident (PR) status, aged 4-6 years at Little Stars Kindergarten, School of Indonesia (Singapore) Ltd. This study uses qualitative methods, with data collection through observation, interviews and documentation (triangulation). Permanent Resident is the legal status granted by a country so that it has the same position as a citizen. Almost all students at SIS Little Stars are permanent residents. The results of this study indicated that students with permanent residency (PR) status at Little Stars Kindergarten, Indonesia School (Singapore) Ltd, have diverse national perspectives. The national vision possessed by students includes: knowing the city or country of origin at birth, local languages, special foods, Indonesian national songs, some folk songs, and general knowledge about Indonesian culture. Students still have a national vision for Indonesian, even though they have long-lived and settled in Singapore. This is the output of the learning of national vision conducted by the teacher.

The Influence of Javanese Language Usage in The Sociodrama Method of Increasing Politeness Behavior of Children Ages 5-6 Years

Politeness is the norm that regulates how to behave and behave in daily life so that people can be valued and liked. Playing socio-drama can be one of the activities that are fun for children and can be used as a means to develop children's polite behavior using Javanese Krama at the same time. Javanese Krama Language is a language with a vocabulary that is used to communicate with parents as a sign of polite and reluctance to the older person. The formulation of the problem in this study is whether there is an increase in the children's politeness with the use of Javanese Krama in the socio-drama method. The purpose of this study is to explain the improvement in the children's politeness with the use of Krama Javanese in the socio-drama method. This research is a quantitative approach with an experimental method by one group pretest-posttest design. The sample in this study is kindergarten student BA Aisyiyah Kandangwangi. The data collection method uses a Likert scale. The sampling technique used is a non-probability sampling technique with a type of purposive sampling. The result of this study indicates that the conducted hypothesis test through a significant 2-tailed test is 0.00. The hypothesis is accepted if the significance value < α, with α = 0.05. In the calculation of this study obtained a significance value < α, that is 0.00 <0.05 so Ha is accepted. So, it can be concluded that there is an improvement in the children's politeness with the use of Javanese Krama in the application of socio-drama method.

The Social Interaction Ability of Early Age Children was Reviewed from The Lifestyle of Parents 'Hedonism

A lively lifestyle found in the modern era is the lifestyle of hedonism. Such a lifestyle is also among parents, seen from the high lifestyle of parents who follow the trend that is famous or booming as much as 71.875%, these parents have an idol or a reference in appearance and behavior. The purpose of this study is that parents pay more attention to their own behavior in order to provide the best examples for children, especially in the development of children's social interactions with their environment, so as to create a good personality in children. This research is a quantitative research type with research subjects of children aged 5-6 years as many as 120 children and is supported by the data of parents of children totaling 120 people in KB-TK HJ. Istriati Baiturahman 2 Semarang. Data collection techniques in this study are using a questionnaire with a scale of children's social interaction abilities, and the lifestyle scale of parental hedonism, while data analysis techniques use simple linear regression. The hypothesis of this study is that there is an influence of parental hedoniseme lifestyle on the social interaction abilities of children aged 5-6 years at KB-TK Hj. Istriati Baiturrahman 2 Semarang.The results of the study are based on statistical calculations, it can be concluded that there is a significant influence on the lifestyle of parental hedonism on children's negative social interaction abilities so that the hypothesis is accepted. The lifestyle of parental hedonism contributed 38.4% to the social interaction ability of children aged 5-6 years at KB-TK HJ. Istriati Baiturahman 2 Semarang.

Physical Violence Against Age Children are Reviewed from The Age of Married Mother

This study aims to determine the differences in physical violence against children after an early age in terms of the age of the mother at marriage. The subjects of this study were children and mothers in the Jatirejo village, Gunungpati District, Semarang City. The number of samples in this study were 30 early childhood. Sampling in this study was using Purposive Sampling techniques. In this study, there was a formulation of the problem that there were differences in physical violence against early childhood in terms of the age of the mother, who married at the age according to the marriage law and married mothers not in accordance with the law marriage law. The data collection method used in this study is a quantitative method, the data in the form of scores are taken using a ratio scale that is the scale of physical violence against early childhood. The analysis technique used is parametric statistics with the help of statistics on the SPSS 20.0 for Windows program. The results of t-test results of the t value are 3.842 and the significance value is 0.001, tcount> t table (3.842> 1.701) and p value <0.05 which is (0.001 <0.05). This means that there are differences in the level of physical violence against early childhood in terms of the age of married mothers in respondents who marry not in accordance with the marriage law (young age) higher physical violence than physical violence against early childhood, in respondents married mothers at the age of law- marriage law (ideal age).

Knowledge of Children Sex Education Ages 5-6 Years Reviewed from The Implementation of Protect Our Selves Media

Cases of adult sex abuse against children are rampant, indicating that sex education from an early age is very important. Adults consider children as innocent beings, so they are often targeted by sex. Child innocence is also used by individuals to carry out immoral acts against children. The problem statement from this study is whether there is a difference in knowledge about early childhood sex education before and after the application of the Protect Our Selves media in learning, and whether the mean score after being given the application of the Protect Our Selves media in learning is knowledgeable about sex education is higher than the child before applying the Protect Our Selves media. The aim is to obtain facts and explain the differences in knowledge of child sex education before and after using the Protect Our Selves media and to explain that children who learn to use the Protect Our Selves media have higher knowledge about early childhood sex education than children before using the Protect Our Selves media. This research is a kind of quantitative research with the research subjects being children aged 5-6 years at Pertiwi Gambuhan Kindergarten Pulosari District, Pemalang Regency, with 31 children. Methods of data collection in the form of observation, Likert scale, documentation. Technical data analysis using descriptive analysis. The results of the study based on statistical calculations, obtained t_count = 10.36212 from the distribution list t with t_table = 2.042. So that it can be concluded that 〖t〗 count> t_table then H_0 is rejected and H_1 is accepted. So there is a significant difference between the knowledge of sex education in children before and after the application of learning through the media Protect Our Selves. Based on the descriptive analysis on the results of the calculations that have been done, the mean is 157.74 at the pretest value, and the mean is 201.65 at the posttest value. This means that the second hypothesis is accepted, that is, the child after being applied to the Protect Our Selves media has a higher knowledge of sex education than the child before applying the Protect Our Selves media.

The Influence of Educational Games Tools on Students’ Cognitive Ability in Geometry of Students Group A

This research has been done to respond the lower range of students’ cognitive ability in group A to recognize shape of geometry in Al Irsyad kindergarten Pemalang. The main question in this research was is there any influence in using the educational games tools on the cognitive ability in geometry of students in kindergarten A? This research aimed to find out is there any influence of Educational Games Tools (APE) on students ‘ability in recognizing the shape of geometry. The subjects of this research are students in group A in Al-Irsyad kindergarten, Pemalang. This research used quantitative approach with the types of pre-experiment and research design one group pre-post test where the researcher observed before and after the treatment.. The researcher chooses the samples with purposive sampling, there are 30 students. This study find out the average of pre-test score 1,83 lower than the average of post-test score 3,07. Statistic examined with normality test using one sample kolmogorov smirnov test find out the score 0,200 > α = 0,05, with the normal distributional data. From the Paired T-test program SPSS 24.0 version find out the result score Sig as 0,00 < 0,05 and score -thitung <-ttabel (-28,358 < -2,0452). Therefore, Ho refused and Ha accepted. We can conclude that APE influence on the students’ cognitive ability in to recognize students geometry group A.