Monday, June 16, 2008

Children learning and development

- Main idea is to teach kids
- debating and communication skills teaching for kids ( for all indian schools )
- ability to focus : sit 30 minutes to focus and solve problems ( by age 6 ), so sit 10 minutes by age 4
- thru community approach , this can lead to measured child development between ages 4 - 10 which builds foundation to child whole career.
Need to have a comprehensive plan and resources well writeen and given to parents.
- This list will have what to expect at each 6 month period like
3.5 , 4, 4.5 , 5 , 5.5 ,6 years of age and beyond.
- more importently having tested best boards easily available for parents to buy for kids. best tested because otherwise bad games etc.. child won't use parents gets discouraged to buy later.

- for Gitu, we neglected puzzles for 6 months due parents to not paying attention . If you have above 6 month incremental plan ahead with expectations and where to buy borads etc.. parents will follow. conduct a club to meet every week end to reinforce.

1. puzzble boards 6 , 12, 24, 48, 100 piece as they grow ( see amazon for all these , see by ranking to get best games ..)
2. word games simple letter cards to form words, next level then final level scrabble
3. strategy games
4. chess

drawing
piano

physical games:
- monkey bars, climbing structures ..
- basketball
- ping pong
- soccer

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you can conduct a picture competition with kids , give a topic and ask them to draw a picture. Here is a global warming sample ( world competition best pictures )

2 comments:

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Unknown said...

Great post about children learning and development! In-home teaching and learning can also be very advantageous for you and your kids. You can try to use various methods to teach them. My kids are grown up but still I love getting involved in their home studies. I use this website for them http://www.kidsfront.com/academics/class/10th-class.html.