Abstract: The study assessed the influence of extracurricular activities on pre-primary children’s physical development. It intended to identify kinds of extracurricular activities and examine their benefits to children’s physical development. The study employed a mixed research approach with a descriptive design and a sample of 65 respondents. The study employed the Child’s Development Theory. The study collected data through semi-structured interviews with heads of schools and closed-ended questionnaires with sports teachers and pre-primary teachers. The researcher ran IBM SPSS statistics version 27.1 to compute the collected data. The researcher analyzed data through content analysis and descriptive statistics. The findings revealed that sports are among the famous and everyday extracurricular activities widely used in pre-primary schools. Also, the findings revealed that the benefits of extracurricular activities depend on the length of practice. These benefits include more muscular muscle development, healthy growth of bones, improved coordination balance, and greater ability for physical relaxation. The study recommends that school administrators employ more physical activities to enhance preschool learners’ physical development.

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of singing games on the moral development of pre-primary school children. Specifically, the study sought to find out the influence of singing games on character formation among pre-primary school children. The study employed a descriptive survey design. The target population was 2,446 respondents, constituting 2000 pre-primary school children, 230 teachers, 215 parents, and the Kisii South Sub-County ECDE Director. Krejcie and Morgan’s (1970) table was used to obtain a sample of 331 respondents. Simple random sampling and purposive sampling were used. Questionnaires, interviews, and observation schedules were used as tools of data collection. Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics, while qualitative data were coded and categorized through the identification of themes and patterns. The study found that most of the children who entirely and actively participated in singing games at school had a positive change in their moral development through character formation, with a correlation value of r=.260. These findings signified that for society to have morally upright children, there is a need for emphasis on more singing games by curriculum designers and educators for effective moral development. The findings will be useful to teachers, educational policymakers and practitioners, and educators in fine-tuning their pedagogical approaches, allocating teaching and learning resources, developing and designing the curriculum, and assessing the effectiveness of singing games on moral development. Finally, this study would help enhance the existing literature upon which potential researchers will base related work.