Last week we talked about what you can do to prepare for a parent/teacher conference aimed at addressing your child’s learning problems. Today I would like to discuss ways you can make learning fun for your child. These tips can be used by teachers, tutors or parents.
The first way to make learning fun is to use games. There are a lot of learning games on the market today that use digital technology to entertain kids as they learn. However, you are not limited to electronic learning games. Common board games can also be used as a learning device. For example, Candy Land may seem like a mindless board game, but it actually is a great game for learning colors, matching shapes and counting. It can also be used to help your child develop fine motor skills.
Fun activities that involve reading directions and measuring items are also great ways to encourage your kids to develop useful math and reading skills. For example, you can have your kids help you assemble a desk that you bought from a box store. They can read the instructions, measure parts and follow the instructions to help you assemble the desk for their room. Cooking is another great learning activity that helps to develop direction following skills, measuring skills, math skills and science skills. (We’ll talk more about cooking next week.)
Private tutoring services can be a great way to deal directly with your child’s learning concerns, however, what you do after their tutoring sessions is going to impact their retention rate. Work with your child’s academic tutor to come up with supplemental activities to enrich and reinforce what they are learning in their tutoring sessions.
