This probably sounds like a super duper challenge for most of us parents. Staying calm and not losing your cool is something that all of us as parents struggle with.
Regarding studies and learning, parents tend to get overboard. They cannot fathom that their child might be a slow learner or has a different inclination than the subjects taught for professional education!
We have come up with a suggestion to help your child learn and develop cognitive realization early on.
Children tend to learn more from their environment and from activities that involve play and interaction. Such activities help instill learning and simultaneously boost their recall power, thus helping their memory enhancement in the long run.
Here are some examples of Play activities that can help:
This is what we would generally label as daydreaming. We usually miss the point that a child, when sitting idle, is observing things around him, trying to absorb the surroundings and questioning things he sees.
This help shapes his cognitive development and makes him more aware of his surroundings, builds his problem-solving skills and helps them add to their imagination.
This is where we allow two or more kids to play in the same spot with their own toys or engagement activities. Such activities allow children to learn from each other.
Using ideas and concepts printed on T-shirts helps toddlers learn from each other. For example, a Color Name tee can be super helpful for kids to pick colors from.
This is more like traditional play, but it has additional benefits. We allow the child to play with blocks or other similar toys in constructive play.
These toys help enhance the child’s spatial abilities and, at the same time, help him/her understand the concept of constructing new things using their motor skills.
This kind of play encourages the kids to come forward and learn better. They try to be aware of their surroundings and follow the rules. The reward at the end of competitive play is the key driving force.
Teaching them counting and helping them learn by setting up competitions related to times tables or mental maths can help. Using counting gloves and Multiplication sheets as educational aid tools can greatly help.
When it comes down to teaching children, play concepts can be overwhelming as children can be distracted. But with time, the children adapt.
Generally, children taught with interactive play better grasp concepts than children taught in controlled setups. As the focus shifts toward skill development, interactive teaching methods are the most preferred forms of teaching!
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Cognitive development is enhanced by play. This is the first and foremost thing you should understand. Activities that offer active learning and interaction with the environment are the key players in cognitive development.
Follow these fun activities to help you enhance your child’s capabilities and help them be more cognizant.
Sing-alongs can be a fun and interactive way to learn. The songs allow the child to learn the words and recognize the action associated with them. This helps them learn to use the word in their daily lives. It also helps enhance the kids' memory and memory recall power.
Protip: It boosts parent-child bonding in the long run.
Well, this could be a daunting task. But we suggest you opt for some education aid or similar interactive activity that revolves around teaching the alphabet. Using educational aid in this fun and learn task boosts the child’s interest in learning.
Protip: Your child can move on to stringing words quickly and become an avid reader.
Children start picking and recalling numbers from a very young age. Since small children are always more interested in their surroundings, number association can be taught early on. Educational techniques like Number Gloves can help children count and use their fingers to count. This comes in handy as they grow up.
Protip: Children get super active at mental maths.
Telling children shapes and colors help them associate and learn. This can also be a fun and engaging activity where you can ask the child to share the shape and the color of the objects around him.
Protip: The child learns to interact with the environment and, simultaneously, build descriptive vocabulary.
Give them a toy, they said!
Kids will be happy, they said!
Ha! This is something that we all, as parents, feel frustrated over. Kids want to loiter around the house and find things to play with rather than finding toys from their toy bins. This habit can be turned into an advantage. Use things lying around to your advantage and tell the names to your child. This will help them build vocab.
Protip: Your child can also work on chores as a part of the learning activity, which helps build self-sufficiency and independence in children.
In reality, there is no single formula for a child’s cognitive development. You need to understand that every child is different, and hence different teaching methods and activities can impact every child differently.
It's always about trying and observing the activities that positively impact your child. A child's cognitive development requires quality time spent with parents or the adults around in their lives.
]]>To ensure that your child, or in case you are a teacher, your students understand the concepts of maths problems and topics, you must be super creative and patient.
These tricks are the perfect solution to all your teaching woes. Following these is the best solution as they benefit students and learning.
Many teachers or parents fail to understand that their confidence is the biggest hurdle between a child learning a concept and the concept itself. Students feel scared or doubt themselves, creating a barrier in their minds.
When starting out on new concepts, the teacher should make sure that they encourage the child to be able to learn with a positive attitude.
When introducing new concepts, make sure they are introduced in a creative way. This will help instill interest in children and motivate them towards learning them in an easy way.
If you are looking to teach them times tables you can use these multiplication gloves. The colorful numbers on the gloves give the children a chance to enjoy and have fun while learning.
Using physical toys and similar objects to introduce concepts, for example, a dummy pizza to teach fractions. These activities help instill concepts for longer periods of time.
Always hear out what the students have to say. In case you are teaching small children, we would suggest that you should introduce the topic to them in the first lesson and then move on to exercises. If the concept is clear from the start then working on these topics can become a breeze.
When you have dialogues with the students, you can understand the level of doubts that they have, and this helps you prepare a strategy to help them learn.
Visual aids are basically a manifestation of practical application. It allows the children to see and experience what they are learning.
In many cases, teachers do not use visual aids, and the students fail to grasp the essence of the concepts being taught.
Educational charts are the perfect option for using visual aids for teaching. They help give physical form to the concepts. Repetitive learning with the help of engaging visuals enhances recall power, thus making it easy for the student to give quick answers.
Hope these ideas will give you the perfect idea of making math fun for your students. Simple steps by the teachers can go a long way and initiate a whole new world for the little learners.
So instead of putting them along the same old path, it's time we introduce them to a better and more fun.
]]>Many times, we feel that our child is already doing way better than his peers and some of his shortcomings we ignore as we feel it compensates for the other extras. It is not the case.
A child is always in the process of learning, and hence providing only positive learning experiences helps ensure a better and more capable individual as he grows.
Teaching kids through games and fun-filled activities is a great tool used by teachers and parents for a long time.
Games encourage students to participate and develop healthy competitive skills and enhance their cognitive abilities. It also allows them to get creative, open themselves to a new system, and relax.
Educational Gloves is an innovative design that promotes fun-filled learning for kids while playing. From arithmetic to basic words, these gloves assist kids in learning counting, performing simple mathematic operations, memorizing the days of the week, etc.
Setting children small tasks and challenges, engaging them in activities focusing more on participation than success, and pushing them a little every now and then helps them reach their potential.
One of the key factors necessary for a child’s mental growth is their ability to communicate with others. Communication classes are a great tool to develop such a skill, where a child is taught not only to express himself or herself freely but also to listen to others.
Where they are assured that their opinions matter, they are also taught to respect others. Whether inside a classroom or at home, a child should be provided with an accepting, open and encouraging atmosphere for them to be able to be themselves and express their likes and dislikes, concerns, etc.
In their early growing stages, balancing strict learning with fun and relaxation is imperative. Learning does not necessarily occur in a classroom or conventionally strict setting.
Motivate your child to explore the world around him, ask questions, and work to find the answers; whether you are waiting at the doctor’s, during a car ride home, or at a bus stop, engage with your child. You can use different activity gloves for the learning and fun combo.
Find what interests them. Help them find books and television documentaries on their topic of interest. Use everyday experiences as learning opportunities so that your child may relax, doesn’t feel overburdened, but at the same time, learning never ceases.
Introducing charts and soft boards to assist kids in learning is a fun and relaxing way to learn. You can find various colorful and informative charts designed specifically for kids to help them fall in love with learning.
Engaging children in group activities is a great way to ease them into social comfort and enhance their leadership and teamwork skills. Friendly group activities promote acceptance, harmony and much-needed social skills.
“Positive Words” T-Shirts are a great way to help kids feel empowered and see not only themselves but others in a positive light too!
Something that kids struggle a lot with controls. Grown-ups, teachers, and parents who are too controlling towards a child lead to a lack of confidence and an inability to communicate with the child properly.
A child’s opinion should be allowed and respected to ensure a healthy learning atmosphere. A child should be able to talk about his likes, dislikes, concerns, and problems; this is achieved when they feel heard and considered.
Giving children enough space to explore and exhibit their creativity brings out the artist in them. Provide them with opportunities and appreciate their artistic side.
Child development and learning is by no means an easy task – but not an impossible one either! Understand the child, adopt new and innovative learning methods, and invest in products that help create a healthy learning environment for the child, so enjoyment and learning go hand in hand!
]]>Insects are fascinating creatures and can be found everywhere on this planet. Our young explorers encounter this life form early on in their life. And I would like to share some interesting facts about these little creatures. Though insects have a short life span but their evolutionary records goes back to 400 million years ago. They live everywhere, be it air, water, land, hot weather, cold weather. Everywhere! We all know the tiny little hard working ants, right?
There are more than 800,000 different kinds of insects. They include butterflies and beetles, fleas and flies, crickets and chiggers. Although they come in almost every shape, most insects have a few things in common.
They have a body divided into three regions called head, thorax, and abdomen, have three pairs of legs mostly, and mouth parts located outside of the head capsule. Most insects have wings and can fly. Most insects also wear their skeletons outside their bodies as hard shells. And all insects begin as eggs.
Insects have a rigid body covering, called an exoskeleton, they are not able to increase in size by simply expanding. As the insect grows, the body covering is periodically shed and replaced with a larger one in a process called molting. Most insects molt several (4 to 8) times between emergence from the egg stage and when they become adults. Most insects do not molt as adults.
The term life cycle means the series of changes in the life of an organism including reproduction.
All organisms goes through various stages of the life cycle. Humans are born as fully formed beings. When we were born, our body was shaped a lot like it is now. It was smaller, of course and we grow mentally and physically but we still have ears, eyes, nose, arms or legs in all stages of our life. When we grow up, our body shape will be about the same. But some baby animals look nothing like the adults they will become.
Life cycle of an insect can be truly amazing where one stage of the organism looks entirely different from their adult stage of life. The stages can be not only structurally unrecognizable from an adult form but it can also be different in eating habits and behave like a different species in different forms of life. It can be hard to say that if it’s the same organism if we don’t study them.
Highly developed insects have a four-stage life cycle and show complete metamorphosis. The insect lives as
Others have a three-stage life cycle. The insect is born as
Most insects lay their eggs near the food they like to eat. Moths and butterflies lay eggs underneath leaves. Dung beetles lay eggs in balls of animal poop. Many flies lay eggs on meat. Some insects even lay eggs on other animals.
Many insects make special cases to protect their eggs. One insect puts foam around its eggs. Many lay eggs in pools, ponds, streams or underground. Rarely, a female insect keeps the eggs inside her body. The eggs hatch, and the young are born alive.
Most eggs hatch into a worm-like stage called a larva. Caterpillars, grubs, and maggots are larvae. They have long bodies and many legs. Larva is the growth phase. It is generally very different from the adult. Usually the larva and adult use different food sources. Almost all larvae are eating machines. A larva can eat more than its own body weight in one day.
Many larvae can destroy crops. They can suck sap from crop roots, eat leaves, fruits or vegetables. On the other hand, the silkworm, a moth larva, makes silk thread.
Once the larva has grown, it must totally change its shape. And it must protect itself while it does so. Pupa(or chrysalis) is a stage of internal reorganization and is also known as the “resting” stage. Many larvae spin cocoons out of silk or grow hard shells. The pupa does not eat and does not move much. There are no visible signs on the outside of the body as to the activity within. The insect is very busy changing shape. This change is called metamorphosis.
When reorganization is complete, the adult is ready to emerge. The pupa hatches and an adult insect with wings, six legs, and three body parts. Such a life cycle is shown by butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, true flies and many other insects, including beetles. Adult insects will find mates, and the females will lay eggs. Sometimes, this is all the adults do. Mayfly adults live for only one day. Most other insects have longer adult lives. They eat, fly, hunt, and work.
In the three-stage life cycle, eggs do not hatch as larvae. They hatch as nymphs, which look like small adults. Nymphs do not turn into pupae. Instead, they shed their skin as they grow. Each time they shed their skin, they look more like an adult. Slowly, the nymph transforms into an adult. This lifecycle can be seen in crickets, mayflies, dragonflies, termites, mantises and cockroaches.
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Who remembers facing the challenge while learning multiplication as a kid?
I do, and maybe you also remember your time when you were a kid. If you are now a parent, you might be seeing your child going through the same struggle with multiplication problems.
Multiplication is a basic mathematics concept that we have to learn. It’s not something that can or should be skipped. You may struggle with it but you have to know it. What good is maths if it doesn’t help you count your money at least!
Mathematics provides an effective way of building mental discipline and encourages logical reasoning and mental rigor. In addition, mathematical knowledge plays a crucial role in understanding the contents of other school subjects such as science, social studies, and even music and art.
Learning mathematics starts from learning to count and it grows from there. Learning multiplication starts with memorizing multiplication tables. In order to solve complicated maths problems, we need to learn multiplication tables. It can be challenging for kids to learn times tables, and sometimes certain tables. I personally remember having a challenge with tables 3 and 7. I guess, it was hard to calculate a lot of numbers in the head and it can be overwhelming when it doesn’t make sense to the brain just yet.
Table Rhymes help for sure to learn them, but they are tedious when using to solve a multiplication problem when we are a beginner
Do you remember using sticky notes for learning in school for things that are hard to remember? It helps though. The constantly visible colorful notes sticking to an accessible site, reinforces our memory. We can easily recollect the information when we need it if we see them enough times. So why can’t we help kids use the same method?
It can be done in a number of ways. Since opening a book every time we need to memorize is an outdated method, we can add visual times tables to kids environment. Like putting a multiplication table canvas on the wall in kids room. This helps the kid to see the multiplication tables multiple times in a day and it will slowly start growing in the memory.
Kids are highly mobile so it is important to add learning methods with the things and plays that kids are very involved in. So we at Glove Scholars created a Glove design to help kids learn multiplication tables that is an everyday accessory clothing and can be anytime & anywhere visually accessible to kids.
Our unique multiplication times tables gloves are designed carefully to help the kids in multiple ways. The gloves are a mobile product, which means kids can use them while playing, studying, travelling or wherever they need them. It gives a constant reinforcement of memory while doing their daily activities. The gloves are worn on hands which is visually the most accessible site (just like a time watch) whenever kids need them. The gloves are designed in a way that the kids see the tables on the back of the hand when they are writing, to assist them while solving multiplication problems.
Since the essential tables are from 1 to 10, we have added 2 pairs of gloves for all tables. One pair has tables from 1 to 5 and the other has tables from 6 to 10. The times tables are colorful and fun to read. Each multiplication table is uniquely color-coded to help the kids keep a track of one table at a time on their hands. So when the kid follows along with one table from their left hand to the right hand, they can go to the same table following the same color. This helps when they are using the gloves to solve the multiplication problems. This habit develops with practice. To make practice easy, we have added a printable pdf worksheet for kids which is color-coded to be used with the gloves. The pdf worksheets are best to be used with a dry-erase pocket that comes with the package and it helps to reuse the sheets every time you need to practice.
The glove size is suitable and comfortably fits kids from ages 6 to 9 years which is the suitable age for kids to start learning multiplication tables.
Multiplication Tables gloves give an engaging process to learn and practice times tables. Try asking the kids random tables when they are playing, when in a car, or anywhere and let them surprise you. You will see how much they are able to memorize with repeated use of the gloves!
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