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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