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Back to School: Fun Learning Methods for Young Kids
Posted By: Viviana on August 12, 2010 at 8:25 am
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Kids will love schooling if they find out that learning is fun. Homework & rote learning isn’t the solution to help kids master or learn the subject. In fact, kids will probably hate school if they have to learn this way. As parents, you can inquire from the school if you are about to register pre-school or primary school for your kids. Alternatively, you can add fun learning methods below which are more effective and appealing for young kids. Fun learning methods works for kids below 12 years old or kids in primary school and pre-school. When they get used to it, they will carry on when they are in secondary school. In fun learning methods, kids are taught not to be spoon-fed with the information, they must actively involve to find the information and teachers act as a guide.
Fun Learning Methods for Kids
1. Practical Examples
Besides kids learn theories from the textbook and do homework on their workbook, kids need practical examples. Take an example of give & take away with the real objects so kids can learn subtraction and addition easily.
2. Show and Tell
I guess every child likes to pretend play as a teacher. In show and tell, a child takes an initiative to be a teacher, an opportunity to explain to his peers about a particular topic. An example: when they study about flower or plant, each child can bring one particular flower or plant to classroom and she must gather the information about that particular plant or flower before show and tell. Kids will learn about presentation skill.
3. Mind Mapping & Visualization
I believe drawing and coloring is the most fun activity for kids. Why don’t transform information they learn into drawing and charts or map. If you are interested about memory techniques for kids, you can visit Students Winning Edge.
4. Case Study or Working in a Group
Kids love to think and they can find out the solution if we ask a question “why” or give them a case. Case study is an exercise which kids are taught to think in a real life situation which often prevail in adult working life. Students are normally required to work in a group. Besides exercising creative thinking skill, kids learn to work together to and to cooperate since they are young. They have to produce the solution or answer as a result of working in a group.
5. Quiz
Quiz can be a fun learning activity. Spelling quiz or a series of questions in maths or other subjects which students can compete against each other to answer the questions in a short time.
6. Project
Kids will learn how to summarize their observation, information and together with their creativity in a project. Below is the rain forest project that my child made when she learned about rain forest and visited rain forest.
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I wholeheartedly agree. If learning is boring, kids won’t want to keep at it. Learning needs to be hands on, so they can experience and understand the “whys” and “hows”. Learning is a life long process, there is always something for us to learn, no matter how old we are.
Learning should be fun, and that’s my motto when I’m with kids… have fun and learn along the way. It also builds great relationships with the kids.
Happy learning.
Carolyn.
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Hi Carolyn, thanks for sharing your opinion.
A way to learn, while also having fun. Which will help children to increase the interest and attentiveness of their learners.
I agree with you, and i like the article you have written. Its true that to increase the interest of a kid in studies some fun is needed, very nicely you have explained in article.
Thanks for shearing your great thoughts with us.
To increase interest of a student in studies fun is needed, it also helps to build relationship strong of teacher-student and parents-student. Very nice platform you had chosen, thanks for shearing your thoughts with us.
For any job for kids, firstly one has to create interest in front of kid, either it is related to studies or its a game. When interest creates they enjoy it.
I fully agree with the article, its happens not only with students or kids but also with us also, if we are not interesting in any thing then that will not be proper. To get thing nicely done then we have to increase interest in that particular.
Their is a best saying “The work depends on the efforts you pay”. Like us the effort we pay the result we get. Same with kid for them parents have to built interest for education, they are small they don’t know about this, they needs fun in each thing.
The thing is not only for kid but also for us, if we don’t have interest in any kind of job then its tough to manage it well, same ways for kid also its parents and teachers responsibility to increase interest in their studies, because they are small they don’t know the things what is right and what is wrong.
I completely agree with you and your article, for anything we have to create interest, same for kid, for their studies we have to create interest. Their is a best saying “without the fun their is no more way to learn”.
If you play football in the yard, you can introduce new vocabularies by mentioning the things inside the yard. You can tell them about the name of the things in English, including tree, cat, grass, ball, ground, and so on.
being a dad, i found group exercise, a very helpful option, i found it very motivated for my kid, he is in Eastbourne Nursery , i personaly feel that the school policy maker should understand the nature of the child first, ya i agree visualization, quiz are very innovative for infants but one has to verify and tested the results of their formats first,
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