Bette Fetter: Sight Words
I was working at home the other day. As I was cleaning up from helping my grandson Brayden review his sight words the evening before, I decided to share a few of the visual ways we are practicing sight words at our house.
visual learning
Developing Visual Organization Skills: Legos
Tonight Brayden found out he was ‘so smart’ when he put his Lego plane set together – all by himself.
Well, it wasn’t exactly all by himself. Uncle Matt was nearby directing and encouraging.
Stop Talking: Using Pictures Instead of Words
Classrooms and homework tend to be very language heavy and may overwhelm visual students,
ADD and ADHD: Has your child been labeled?
Have you been labeled – scatter brained, distracted, inattentive, even impulsive? Has your child? Perhaps ADD or ADHD diagnosis has been away to explain these behaviors. Diagnosing ADD or ADHD is highly subjective and comes with a multitude of negative connotations. But what if it’s not a negative? What if its not even ADD ?
- What if you are operating exactly like you’re supposed to?
- What if instead of being deficient – you are actually quite gifted?
- What if you could start seeing the gift – the opportunities?
- What if you could harness and shape your gifts to work for you and not against you?
There’s good news. Visual learners share many of the same traits as ADD. Visual learners need more visual, hands on learning experiences and often struggle to organize, stay on task and pay attention. This is increasingly apparent with children in today’s language heavy, test oriented classrooms. And yet there are great advantages to being a visual learner. Some of our most creative minds, great leaders and innovative business people have been and are visual thinkers.
Inspire your Child: 13 Spring Creative Activities for Kids
You may not need another activity to add to an already busy spring, but in case you’re looking for some get-me-going inspiration, here are a few fun activities to share with your family…
Build an Art Spot. The key to success is to make sure your spot is well supplied; and that little artists can utilize it without the need of adult supervision. This means washable mediums; and place-mats, aprons or old clothes that make clean up a cinch. If you’re short on room, a low and easy-to-open drawer works well – loaded with paper and compartmentalized, tote-able supply bins. Want to really go all out with your space? Here are some amazing ideas to inspire you.
Draw, Draw, Draw. Young Rembrandts has 3 new “How to Draw” activities for Spring 2013. All new and all FREE. Click here to print them out today. http://www.youngrembrandts.com/download-activity
No TV Family Nights. Try “Play Night” where the kids or the whole family can dress for the event and put on a play. Here are some free playscripts to follow. You could also organize a “Kids Choice Night”; kids can pick their dinner and an activity from a parent-approved list; like bowling, a drawing session, or a backyard camp-out!
Insights from Children’s Art Expert Bette Fetter: Top Blog Post for April 2013
- We kick off the month of April with a quote from Being Visual … Stem + Art = STEAM
- Teaching Kids to Draw Video: How to Draw a Butterfly is the first of our new easy, 2 minute how to videos.
