Showing posts with label Learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Learning. Show all posts

Monday, November 22, 2010

Preschool Learning Activities-Emotional Development & Fine Motor Skills Activities

Preschool learning activities are varied and just involve a little creativity. Emotional Development activities for kids as well as Fine Motor Skills Development are very important areas to develop in your child or preschooler.

Having your preschool child cut out various shapes and objects is a great way to help develop fine motor skills. Of course if you are going to allow your children or preschoolers to do this activity you need to ensure they are using the proper 'child safe' scissors when doing ANY cutting in any material.  

Here is a fun preschool learning activity that you can use with your preschool child to help develop them in these specific areas of growth. Keep a collection of old magazines, newspapers or flyers that are full of images of people with different expressions etc.

Instruct the children to pick a magazine or newspaper etc. to look through and find images of people's faces showing different expressions.  They may find pictures of happy faces, sad faces, surprised faces, angry faces, scared faces and many more.    

Your preschool child can then 'cut out' all the faces they find using 'child safe' scissors of course, and they can discuss each different image with the parent or teacher and discuss what they see in the person's expression.  You could even just have children find and cut out a certain expression, or what 'they' see as a certain expression. For example, you could tell them to find any pictures of 'happy faces' and see what they come up with, you may be surprised what they find!  

It is good to keep these images and glue them to a piece of Bristol Board or construction paper, and then to laminate it. You can then cut them all out and save them in a box or envelope! This will make the images last for years so they may be used again and again in many different ways to teach children.  You could even use these different faces and expressions and have children 'GROUP' all similar expressions together in a pile.  

Another Great learning activity for children becoming familiar with spelling and simple reading or word recognition would be to have a few different images (4-6) out. You could then have the names of the expressions written on a piece of paper or a label (example) Happy, Sad, Angry etc. You could have the child(ren) match the image to the word. This is excellent for simple reading and recognition of every day words that express emotion.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Homeschool Lesson Plans Made Easy: The Secrets of Learning: The Levels of Learning

Students often struggle in class because the teacher teaches to only part of the class, often the average students. This means that the higher ability students never get challenged and the lower ability students get lost. The lesson is given to those right in the middle and is often designed to be general enough that everyone can understand. In some cases, an experienced or skilled teacher will teach to the upper end kids. In either case, only one third of the class is challenged while the other two thirds are bored or lost.

Imagine going to a restaurant that only serves one dish, lets' say a pasta meal. Those who wanted a light salad or a meaty steak are out of luck, even though they might eat the pasta. It is easy to make and feeds everyone. This is similar to what happens in the classroom when a generic lesson is given that only challenges a few students.

In the classroom the same spelling test is often given to entire class. The good spellers will get one hundred percent without studying. The average students will get a few wrong whether they study or not. The weak spellers won't have a hope of getting a high mark and will often have to spend some recess or noon time as punishment. It is an assignment where success is tough to measure.

Ideally in a class every student should be challenged or at least allowed to work at his or her own level. Using the spelling test as an example, there should be challenging words like "attention" or "automatic" for the good spellers and basic words like "blocked" or "jumping" for those students who are still learning phonetic rules. There should also be two tests, one before they study and one after they study so any improvements can be measured. Although this may seem like too much of a hassle, true learning will take place.

Allowing students to work at different levels can work in all classes. Math questions can be placed on the board in levels to allow students to choose the questions they are capable of doing. In music experienced students can play complex harmonies while new students can play simple harmonies. Students taking part in silent reading time can be taught to select books that match their reading ability. By allowing students to complete work that matches their ability, you give them ownership of their learning and with help them reach their full potential.

All students should be given the chance to learn and be challenged, no matter what their ability is. Being a great teacher means allowing students to be all they can be.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Toddler lesson plans, learning activities for your child

Most children are curious about the world around them and learn born. In addition, children can be very mischievous while time. Many parents try to encourage the learning of their children in the early stages of development. There are some parents that the classes to develop plans for the preschool child to help their children get off to a quick start of the learning activities.

It 's really easy to implement daily lesson plans for your child. You canteach and entertain children with common household items. In addition, this to help develop the creativity of the child. In addition, this allows quality time between parent and child. Well, you can do fun activities for children from the work of a game.

Imitation is one way to cope with the teaching-learning activities to help children. Most children like to imitate their parents, siblings and other adults. If you want to teach children about animals and then someEmbodiments of the animals.

For example, if you want to teach the child how to recognize dog then you would on all fours and start barking like a dog particular. You can ask the child to imitate your actions and to identify the dog.

Imitations can be performed for a variety of animals such as tigers, monkeys, birds and cats. The conversation can go further, using the characteristics of animals.

You can also talk about the relationship between animalsand their parents. It may help to explain how an animal like a mother bear protecting their young. This type of activity allows learning to be fun for the child.

The exercise is one of the lesson plans that the child can dance and teach your child to music. This is also a way for parents of the child and moving to teach at the same time. Most children enjoy listening and moving to the rhythm of the music.

Studies have shown that music can develop certain partsof the brain in children. You can also add an entire dance routine to the song with the baby. Training time can teach children about different musical genres.

One week your child can learn, classical music, and can in the next week to learning jazz. And the dance training activity for the child will be. Moreover, this learning activity with the development of motor skills, listening skills and imagination of the child to help him.

Teach the childathletic ability may be other fun activities for the child. You can teach your child about basketball with simple family. For example, the child can learn to shoot with dirty laundry. First, I would ask the child to contribute to the collection of the laundry and put the clothes in a pile.

A laundry basket would be set up across the room. Also, you should teach the child to shoot and aim for the basket with clothes. The next step here would be the laundrythe washing machine and allows the child to help with putting the laundry in the washing machine. Your child will learn two lessons from this, as a responsibility and learning how to play basketball.

Learning activities should help the child with the construction of knowledge and responsibility always best in the world. In addition, the lesson plans include all child learning activities that develop motor skills of the child.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Ideas preschool - learning letters

Explore the alphabet is a good way, lessons take on new themes and ideas in the pre-school, during class, the fundamental building blocks for reading and writing. This pre-ideas "focus on the letter" L by boats, art projects and games for ladybugs and leaves. Feel free to use these ideas in combination with natural breeding ground for insects or other units when the dress theme of the teaching alphabetCurriculum.

Let's take a look at Ladybug

Most children are very small insects, especially the colorful ladybug fascinated. Ladybugs are an excellent opportunity, counting skills by counting the number of spots on the ladybug reappear practice.

For a fun ladybug craft, try ladybugs stamps from potatoes. Cut potatoes in half easily and gently shape of a ladybug carved into the white half of the potato. Dip the stamp in color, and presson paper to create an assortment of ladybug prints.

Children can also own ladybug with paper plates, color and metal. For this job, each child will need two paper plates. You have to paint one of the dishes the children look on as normal ladybirds. Pictures or an example of inspiration.

After you have finished painting the ladybug in the first place, cut lengthwise in half. Next, you have the children paint on paper accordingDrive like a ladybug with its wings spread open. Finally, the two halves can cut the ladybug on the second disk with the metal buckle, and now the children have a ladybug craft with wings open and close, e.

Do not leave out the leaves

Another argument for exploring the letter "L" are leaves. These trades well in autumn or spring. This fun activity called "Match of the leaves" can be made from leaves collected with the RealLand or images of leaves of magazines or books displayed. When the true leaves, they can, so they are more layered.

Collect the pairs of different types of leaves, and place all samples in a box. Children will move through the field and try to identify the pairs of leaves on the color, size and shape.

Here is a fun job, it's made with real leaves collected on a nature walk. Children need to collect as many interesting leaves, they can find.Then, give each child a paper plate with the center cut out and assemble the crown-shaped leaves.

Once you are satisfied with the arrangement, they stick to their leaves in the pot. additional decorations such as glitter, berries and bows can be added after the leaves are dried.

Finally, here's a dirty, preschool craft ideas, fun color used to be a tie-dye effect on the coffee filter paper cut in the mold. To begin, cover your work areawith newspaper to prevent breakage with color. Mix paint in various colors and fill with the color dropper.

They have children create their own pages full of color with the eyedropper. Since the beginning of the water interesting coffee-colored designs can be created with a few drops of paint.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Project-Led Learning - Plan A girl of 12 years

So are the terms of the project-led learning fascination for your child? What would resemble one year series of projects for a particular student? I want to share with you that the layout of my twelve year old daughter introduced me to and I worked together in the model of project-led learning. This is his seventh year of a degree.

First, their decisions.

Natural - raising rabbits in the yard; Physics - Playing Little League Baseball, scientific - particularly interesting kitPitsch, Mathematical / Logical - designing and building bridges with toothpicks; technology - robotics kits, literature, writing - short stories, professional learning - carpentry skills, learn art - design sketch, social - a country in the world of project , spiritual - go on a missions trip.

(Because I am the author of the Micro-Business for a teenager, she began her business on a smaller base of four of its fourteen projects. She is a selection of each of the tenCategories.)

This is their list now that they have working relationships with all the adjustments that have shaped the reality of our family situation.

I have grouped natural, literary, artistic, and this layout. Build a rabbit in the garden and suddenly get a rare and unusual breed of rabbit to buy. We buy two or three rabbits for them to care. Before getting a rabbit, consider what they need and how to ensure for them. Meanwhile, the studyThe life of Beatrix Potter and her stories of animals. It will pay attention to drawings of Beatrix Potter and the writing style. It will also read Watership Down to see how small animals can become wonderful heroes in history. Receive a brochure, it teaches you to draw animals. Your goal will be to children's stories of animals, especially rabbits review. Create their own sketches of animals, their history. Will draw and write about their experiences with their own rabbits. Willtheir stories with children drawings on the Internet, including at Squidoo.com publish. It will offer copies of books of his children for sale as part of their work-based learning.

You should have seen the light shines in their eyes when I shared this project with her.

I then grouped science, technology and mathematics projects in a wide range of robotics kits, electrical kits and kits Pitsch Toothpick Bridge with a focus on engineering and design.

InIt will also go to Little League Baseball in the spring. I have tools for woodworking and I am a carpenter, so I teach her to make beautiful wooden boxes. Will the project country, but we're a girl of her age in this country you can find a pen pal relationship. As a missions trip may or may not work for an eleven-year-old, will be a prayer-through-the-Old Testament that I belong to my family. They have developed a kind of missions trip - couldYou bet. It is also very likely to continue with his violin lessons.

These projects include the study together with the players involved. Make photo journals of their work, some of which will be published online.

You will certainly learn more about this school year to come, as they always chained to a desk, busy at work seven hours a day.