Podcast: Does Your Child’s School Understand?
In episode 27 of Living Life as a Visual Thinker, I answer a parent email about a second grader whose school wanted to have him tested for ADD.
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Desperately Seeking Princesses
I am willing to bet you have a little one at home that is OBSESSED with drawing princesses. We’ve bundled lots of new How to Draw videos into our latest eBook, Princesses & Enchanted Treasures! Download it and begin to draw castles, crowns, princesses and sparkly jewels.
How to Choose “Just Right” Books
Learning to read is about developing skill and confidence, but to be successful and want to keep at it, kids need to read the right books for their age, interest and ability level. How do you find appropriate books?
Handwriting Is Important
Handwriting can sometimes be seen as unimportant in our technology driven world. For visual learners, however, the ability to quickly and legibly write down ideas that they are learning in school is essential.
Podcast: A Bumpy First Grade Year
From an overstimulating classroom environment to questionable discipline practices, first grade was a challenging experience for a visual learner. The expectations of high test scores and achievement just didn’t allow for differences in learning styles.
Exercise Their Right Brain
Young Rembrandts’ drawing classes are a great way for your children to exercise their right brains but the seats are limited so enroll in a class near you today!
11 Must Know Phonics Facts
Remember phonics? I always thought of them as the necessary evil of learning to read. You can’t think about learning to read without hearing about phonics.
Columbus Day Learning Activities
In fourteen hundred ninety-two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
He had three ships and left from Spain;
He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain.
Writing Is Hard
Visual people can feel a little bit of anxiety when it comes to writing assignments. Since visual learners operate out of the right side of their brains and the right side of the brain is all about pictures, using words to describe these pictures and organizing these words into a coherent body of writing can become a very cumbersome and laborious endeavor.
Handwriting Matters
There are significant benefits to writing by hand; the better visual students write the better they learn.
