Use language and play to help kids learn about themselves! One of my kids’ favorite games to play is one I made up on the fly while waiting in a long line at the grocery store. I called it “Find the Body Part” and the objective of the game was just that—for my kids to [...]
Thinking back to my own experience of learning how to read, I remember learning the letters through repetition – flashcards, letter of the week, and other rote activities. The names came well before the sounds and uppercase was before lowercase. Thinking back, had I been taught the sounds first, the process of learning to read [...]
We humans learn our native language, as complex as it is, with relative ease. However some sentences take more time to understand for young children. Take this sentence, “The truck was hit by a red car.” Many children under four years will remember this event with the truck doing the hitting. Usually the agent of [...]
For several decades classrooms have used technology to gather student responses during a lesson. A physics class at the University of Massachusetts asked student which of three answers was correct regarding the momentum of a cylinder rolling on a curved track. Each student’s desk had buttons that tallied answers on a single table on the [...]
