5 Activities To Help Enhance Learning
Fun ways to reinforce remote learning.
Right now, you as parents are doing triple duty on top of how heavy your load was to start with. With schools having gone remote, many children have lost experimental learning, and you’ve probably become the teacher you had never planned to be. The joy has left for so many kids and parents I speak and work with as remote learning work is not the same as live, interactive videos with an educator, or engaging experimental learning.
Here are five fun enrichment activities to let you enjoy some fun times with your children while you build skills and strategies they may have learned in school but definitely are not learning with worksheets and links. I do these fun activities online with my remote learners. My parent clients report increased engagement, interest, focus, and that kids just don’t realize they are learning.
We can take your children from basic math skills, basic reading and comprehension skills and lead them to evaluation, analysis, application and more.
Try these:
Collect three dice and begin with two while holding one aside. I do this remotely with children of all ages for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and even division and they love it! Throw down two dice then add the third once your child has the first sum. This is a fast-paced, fun way to have your child practice skills. If you find your child can’t get the sum after doing mental math quickly, this may be the reason that the work they are currently doing with multi digit addition, number lines, multiplication or any math rules are slowing your kids down. I recommend playing this fast pace fun dice game a few times a week for 10 or 15 minutes for fun, and for strengthening basic math skills.
Cooking or baking! Choose something fun to make like a cake or cupcakes (modifying for any dietary needs in your family). Let your child read the step-by-step directions to you! Make, and enjoy the time creating something delicious while having fun together and building skills your child needs with learning; reading, reading comprehension, following step-by-step directions, fractions, patience, and self-control.
Projects you have around the house with step-by-step directions will be fun for you and your child. Have your child explain the directions. Then tell your child not to read the instructions but instead use the pictures, and the captions to explain how to do and complete the project. Create something with your child. Once you have explored how easy that trick made it feel and that you created something great together, tell your child that those are the same tricks to help them understand nonfiction text.
Sports scores (you can find from before the lockdown). For early learners have them use touchdowns and field goals or home runs and base hits to add and subtract until they’ve got adding and subtracting down.You can have your child compare the touchdowns, or the scores or the base hits of different teams or two different seasons and ask them which teams had the most, which teams had the least? For upper elementary and middle grades try using percentages. If a certain team won eight of 16 games what is the percentage of that team?
Have your child create a project, solve a problem, or start a business. Something from start to finish can be achieved by your child, or your children with your help or without by finding start to finish projects targeted to their age group online. One place to start might be teacherspayteachers.com. If you are having a hard time finding projects that would help your child build to skate park, or a computer, or start a business to help children somewhere else in the world I will be happy to find some suggestions to offer you. Reach out at AllisonCD.com
Having fun creating and playing and learning with games your child will deepen their basic skills, as well as build some new skills while at the same time and having fun, enjoying time with their parents, and not even realize learning is happening while fun is happening.
If you are interested, for a limited time I am offering a complementary parent session each Saturday for 45 minutes. Please feel comfortable contacting at www.ALLISONCD.com, we will set up a time and I will send you my number. It will not always be like this! Promise. You got this! I believe in you! I believe in your kids!