Teaching kids everyday is really pretty easy. Most of the time I don't even realize that I'm teaching Monkey until later when he repeats it back to me and shows me that he understands it. It's amazing to me how easy it can be.
Today's "How I Everyday Teach" tip is
Use Your Child's Interests!
Monkey's interests change almost weekly. He will want to know everything he can one week about bugs then maybe next week it's farm animals or snakes. Right now we are in our 3rd week of everything dinosaurs! He just loves them! We have spent many hours reading books about this dino or that dino, struggling over how to pronounce their names, and watching Dino Dan or Dinosaur Train.
I love that he is so excited to learn everything about dinosaurs he can but I have decided that this is our last week on dinosaurs. I want to stretch him out of his comfort zone and into another area of learning. We will head to the library and return all of our dino books and head inside. Once we are there I will let Monkey lead me to what he wants to learn about. It could be anything from art to farm animals, amphibians to sea creatures, who knows? Whatever it is we will get books and movies about it. I will also include other concepts like counting or shapes or character traits that go along with whatever topic he chooses to add in extra learning.
So head out to the library and follow your child around and see what they are interested in. Let them look at books and play with materials there and then decide what you want to do for the next week. Grab your books, head home and start learning together! Most likely what your child loves isn't something that you know everything about so go and enjoy this adventure together!
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Use Your Child's Interests!
Monkey's interests change almost weekly. He will want to know everything he can one week about bugs then maybe next week it's farm animals or snakes. Right now we are in our 3rd week of everything dinosaurs! He just loves them! We have spent many hours reading books about this dino or that dino, struggling over how to pronounce their names, and watching Dino Dan or Dinosaur Train.
I love that he is so excited to learn everything about dinosaurs he can but I have decided that this is our last week on dinosaurs. I want to stretch him out of his comfort zone and into another area of learning. We will head to the library and return all of our dino books and head inside. Once we are there I will let Monkey lead me to what he wants to learn about. It could be anything from art to farm animals, amphibians to sea creatures, who knows? Whatever it is we will get books and movies about it. I will also include other concepts like counting or shapes or character traits that go along with whatever topic he chooses to add in extra learning.
So head out to the library and follow your child around and see what they are interested in. Let them look at books and play with materials there and then decide what you want to do for the next week. Grab your books, head home and start learning together! Most likely what your child loves isn't something that you know everything about so go and enjoy this adventure together!
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