I’m a huge fan of creative play, inside and outside the house. When you head to Disneyland – all the creating has been done for you. You walk around seeing what other people imagined. But when you give kids the time, place and encouragement for unstructured play, their brains have to do the work. They climb trees, build forts, imagine new worlds, and spend hours and hours discovering new parts of themselves.
You may be wondering what else you can do to prepare your visual learner for a successful school year.
In the perpetual race to have it all, working moms are balancing (at least) two careers – your job at the office and your job at home. Naturally these circumstances force moms to prioritize and sometimes make sacrifices.
Children have a lot of visual memories that need to be translated to words. Talking things through before writing helps get the creative juices flowing and brings specific memories to the surface.
After years spent trying to figure this out for myself and my kids, I want to help you get past what the commercials are saying and give you some better options. Here are some breakfast favorites that are setting your child up to fail.
School has begun. If you have child in grades K-2 you will likely be getting lists of sight words that your child needs to study. Learning sight words is an essential part of learning to read.
Recently, a new Young Rembrandts franchisee told me something awesome about her son’s university… Virginia Tech instituted a rule where all notetaking was to be done by hand. No laptops. No keyboarding of any kind. Just good old paper and pencil. (I assume pens are allowed. Haha.)
Visual kids learn best by making the words into pictures they can remember. So get out the note cards, colored markers and make the vocabulary words visual.
The new school year brings with it more structure, busy schedules, a multitude of events and activities, and of course homework, dreaded homework. When the kids go back to school, it means we all go back to school. Like it or not, you need to adjust just about everything you did over summer, for your kids to get what they need for school. It’s all for the best and there’s a big payoff, especially for visual kids and parents.
Today is Teddy Bear day. Celebrate with the kids by drawing this cuddly little guy.
Do you know where the name teddy bear came from?
