making learning fun! cynthia weber. "many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. many...

Making Learning Fun!

Cynthia Weber

"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way a car is driven."

Edward de Bono, b.1933, British psychologist, writer and expert on thinking.

New Morning School

Brain Research

Very malleable

Exercise = brain cells

Include movement through out the day

Brain-friendly instruction

Learning Styles Auditory - hearing

Kinesthetic/Tactile - touching

Visual - seeing

The Work of Piagetdevelopment of children’s thinking

requires more time to experience and develop

Ways to explain new information

Connect to what they know

Structures -are simply ways to make learning meaningful for children

Social and Emotional

Tie learning to an event

brain is engaged

engages emotions of children

endorphins!!

Beware!Only takes 3 seconds to read face

Changes the brain chemistry

Takes a priority over learning

Amount of New Information

5 years = 2 pieces

7 years = 3 pieces

9 years = 4 pieces

Nourishment

Water - all day

fruit juices, soft drinks, coffee, tea...

Fourteen foods that are recommended to eat everyday:

beans

blueberries

broccoli

oats

oranges

pumpkins

soy

wild salmon

spinach

tea

tomatoes

turkey

walnuts

yogurt.

For a healthy brain:

Eat preservative free food

Have a positive attitude

Exercise daily

Get plenty of sleep

Are they ready?

can make a one-to-one correspondence

identify letters and their sounds

Spelling look for different ways to practice

Lite Brite

Shaving Cream

For Visual and Kinesthetic Learners:

Let them construct

their spelling words

For those Auditory Learners, have them:

Chant their spelling words: Give me a “C”, give me a “H”...

Write a song to sing to the family or onto a cd

Write a story and read it out loud

write a silly poem including all of the spelling words an read it out loud

Write a secret code for all of the spelling words.

Things to consider:

Word Families

Phonetics

Math Fun

Add-bot

Make their own flash cards

Touch Mathgreat for kinesthetic learners

Visual Learners: benefit from seeing the whole equation

becomes implanted on the brain

3 + 4 = 7

Let’s play!Ten Up

Even Sums / Odd Sums

Pyramid

Other Ideas that Work:

Baseball Math also for vocabulary, spelling...

Setting goals

Incorporating the 3 learning styles

Questions?cynthia@parentchildeducation.com